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A Star Is Born · Beat 320 · permalink

Street

1:48:17–1:48:31 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; 3 names 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 1:48:201:48:20Frame at 1:48:271:48:27

Play from 1:48:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 200 · shots 731–732. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(street, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in tuxedo with mustache visible, audible
  • crowd of people, mostly in dark clothing visible
  • Miss Vicki Lester (named at t:108:22): unseen person referred to as Miss Vicki Lester mentioned
Seen happening
  • A man in a tuxedo speaks into a microphone. [frame:1]
  • A crowd and a car are visible on a street. [frame:2]
Also said
“Miss Vicki Lester.” 108:22 · “And if I'm not mistaken, this leftist car has just driven up. Yes, it is she.” 108:24
Seen
microphone, tuxedo, crowd, car
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: ceremonial; themes: public recognition, arrival, celebrity; style notes: low-key lighting, medium close-up on speaker, wide shot of street scene

A man in a tuxedo speaks into a microphone while a crowd and a car are visible in a dimly lit outdoor setting. The transcript identifies a person named Miss Vicki Lester and mentions a car arriving.

“The girl who has won the Heart of Hollywood.” 108:17 · “The girl who has won the heart of the world.” 108:20 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 1:48:20 (passage 1:48:17–1:48:31); US record: No renewal found

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