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A Star Is Born · Beat 328 · permalink

Street

1:49:24–1:49:50 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; 4 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 1:49:351:49:35Frame at 1:49:481:49:48

Play from 1:49:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 206 · shots 742–743. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • older woman with styled gray hair, wearing a dark fur coat and a necklace visible, audible
  • man in black tuxedo and bow tie, smiling visible
  • woman in light-colored gown, standing in background visible
  • man in dark coat, facing p2 visible
Seen happening
  • A woman speaks into a microphone. [frame:1]
  • A man in a tuxedo greets another person on a street lined with onlookers. [frame:2]
Also said
“But here I am.” 109:42 · “Thank you very much.” 109:45
Seen
microphone [frame:1], fur coat [frame:1], tuxedo [frame:2], crowd [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: resilient and public; themes: perseverance, public persona, Hollywood aspiration; style notes: studio-lit close-up on speaker, wide shot of street scene with shallow depth of field, formal attire suggests event

A woman in a fur coat speaks into a microphone while addressing an audience; a man in a tuxedo is seen greeting people in a crowded outdoor setting. The transcript includes her speaking about her journey to Hollywood and encouraging listeners who feel discouraged.

“Maybe some of you people listening in dream about coming to Hollywood.” 109:25 · “You just think about me.” 109:35 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 1:49:35 (passage 1:49:24–1:49:50); US record: No renewal found

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