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A Star Is Born · Beat 329 · permalink

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1:49:50–1:50:16 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:49:521:49:52Frame at 1:49:551:49:55Frame at 1:50:011:50:01Frame at 1:50:111:50:11

Play from 1:49:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 206 · shots 744–747. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, dark hair styled up, wearing white dress and fur stole, pearl necklace visible, audible
  • man, mustache, wearing black tuxedo and top hat visible
  • unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • Woman and man stand together near microphone. [frame:1]
  • Close-up of woman speaking to man. [frame:3]
  • Woman stands at microphone with man beside her. [frame:4]
Also said
“This microphone is on an international hooker.” 110:06 · “Throughout the world, your fans are hoping that you'll say a few words” 110:08
Seen
microphone, top hat, fur stole, handwritten note, footprints
On screen
Norman Maine GOOD LUCK
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal yet intimate; themes: public performance, personal support, media broadcast; style notes: studio-lit close-ups, formal attire, staged crowd background, dramatic framing

A woman in a white dress and fur stole stands beside a man in a tuxedo and top hat; they are near a microphone as a voice speaks about international broadcast. A handwritten note reading 'Norman Maine GOOD LUCK' is shown with footprints.

“Amen.” 109:58 · “Miss Lester.” 110:00 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 1:49:52 (passage 1:49:50–1:50:16); US record: No renewal found

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