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A Star Is Born · Beat 32 · permalink

Private office

11:52–12:08 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 12:0012:00

Play from 11:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 19 · shots 81–81. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Miss Esther Blodgett (named at frame:1): hands holding a letter, suggesting an adult, no other features visible visible
Seen
typed letter [frame:1]
On screen
Miss Esther Blodgett: Your application for extra work received. All extra talent is engaged by this studio, as by all other major studios, through the Central Casting Corporation at 5504 Hollywood Boulevard Hollywood, California Paramount Pictures Inc.
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, bureaucratic; themes: audition, Hollywood studio system, correspondence; style notes: close-up shot, centered framing, studio lighting, focused on text

A close-up shows a typed letter addressed to Miss Esther Blodgett, confirming receipt of her application for extra work and stating that all extra talent is engaged through the Central Casting Corporation at 5504 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, California, by Paramount Pictures Inc. The letter is held by hands visible at the edges of the frame.

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 12:00 (passage 11:52–12:08); US record: No renewal found

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