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A Star Is Born · Beat 317 · permalink

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1:47:42–1:47:47 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:47:441:47:44

Play from 1:47:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 197 · shots 727–727. 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
  • woman, dark coat, standing, profile view visible
  • woman, patterned coat, seated, facing right visible
  • silhouetted figure, indistinct clothing visible
  • unseen audible
Seen
dark coat [frame:1], patterned coat [frame:1], silhouetted figure [frame:1], brick wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: departure, unspoken tension; style notes: low-key lighting, silhouetted figures, medium shot

A woman in a dark coat stands near a seated woman in a patterned coat; a third figure is silhouetted between them. A voice says the car is ready and they must leave.

“The car is ready, Mrs.” 107:43 · “We'll have to go now.” 107:44 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 1:47:44 (passage 1:47:42–1:47:47); US record: No renewal found

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