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A Star Is Born · Beat 319 · permalink

Theatre

1:47:56–1:48:17 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:48:021:48:02Frame at 1:48:131:48:13

Play from 1:47:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 199 · shots 729–730. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
theatre (theatre, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • unseen, voice only audible
Seen happening
  • A crowd gathers outside a theater at night with illuminated signage. [frame:1]
  • The theater marquee displays 'VICKI LESTER' in bright lights. [frame:2]
Also said
“is what is involved in our greatest performance.” 108:12 · “It is to take a moment to the girl herself.” 108:15
Seen
theater marquee, crowd, theater facade
On screen
VICKI LESTER
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: anticipatory; themes: celebrity, public spectacle, theatrical return; style notes: nighttime exterior shot with high-contrast lighting on signage, wide framing to capture crowd and architecture

The scene shows a nighttime exterior of a theater with illuminated signage reading 'VICKI LESTER' and 'CHINESE THEATER', with a crowd gathered below. A voiceover announces the arrival of the film industry and introduces a star's return to the screen.

“The entire fiction industry has come to the Chinese theater by this opening.” 108:04 · “It has come today to a great star on our long-awaited return to the screen,” 108:08 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 1:48:02 (passage 1:47:56–1:48:17); US record: No renewal found

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