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1:47:19–1:47:42 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:47:301:47:30

Play from 1:47:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 196 · shots 726–726. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • person in dark clothing, profile view, red hair visible under dark head covering visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Person in dark clothing is shown in profile against a brick wall. [frame:1]
Also said
“knowing that his death broke” 107:24 · “was to make you” 107:37
Seen
brick wall [frame:1], dark head covering [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: melancholic; themes: grief, unresolved emotion, love after death; style notes: close-up profile shot, high contrast lighting, dark costume against brick background

A person in dark clothing is shown in profile against a brick wall, speaking about someone's death and its emotional impact. The transcript includes fragmented lines about happiness, brokenness, and love, with no named individuals or clear setting beyond the brick background.

“I can't believe that wherever he is,” 107:19 · “He can be very happy.” 107:22 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from A Star Is Born (1937) at 1:47:30 (passage 1:47:19–1:47:42); US record: No renewal found

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