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A Star Is Born · Beat 327 · permalink

Theatre

1:48:55–1:49:24 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 1:49:021:49:02Frame at 1:49:101:49:10Frame at 1:49:181:49:18

Play from 1:48:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 206 · shots 739–741. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
theatre (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older woman, grey hair, wearing a dark fur coat and a long necklace visible
  • man, dark hair, wearing a black tuxedo with bow tie and white pocket square visible, audible
  • partially visible man in dark suit, seen in profile in frame:3 visible
Also said
“You're a liar.” 109:05 · “Won't you say a few words to the radio audience, please?” 109:09
Seen
fur coat [frame:1], tuxedo with bow tie [frame:1], long necklace [frame:1], white pocket square [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and slightly tense, with undertones of media pressure; themes: media attention, public performance, generational interaction; style notes: medium close-up shots, studio lighting, formal attire, static camera framing

An older woman in a fur coat and a man in a tuxedo stand together in a crowded venue; the man is asked to speak to a radio audience. The transcript includes dialogue about media attention and a request for him to address listeners.

“They'll have your mug.” 108:56 · “- How do I look? - You look slow.” 109:02 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 1:49:02 (passage 1:48:55–1:49:24); US record: No renewal found

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