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A Star Is Born · Beat 35 · permalink

Private office

12:41–13:03 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 12:4212:42Frame at 12:4712:47Frame at 12:5412:54Frame at 13:0013:00

Play from 12:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 21 · shots 84–87. 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
  • woman, dark suit, light-colored bow tie, seated at desk visible
  • woman, green dress, standing, red hair visible
  • person in blue dress, seen from back, seated at desk in background visible
Seen happening
  • A woman in a dark suit sits at a desk holding a pen. [frame:1]
  • A woman in a green dress stands holding a camera. [frame:2]
  • The two women stand near a desk, facing each other. [frame:3]
  • The two women stand near a desk with another person seated in the background. [frame:4]
Also said
“We haven't put anyone on our books for over two years.” 12:45 · “Come here.” 12:50
Seen
desk, pen, camera, typewriter, window blinds, wall clock
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: professional and slightly tense; themes: career opportunity, Hollywood industry, professional evaluation; style notes: medium close-ups and two-shots, studio lighting with shadows, formal attire, static camera

A woman in a dark suit sits at a desk while another woman in a green dress stands nearby; they speak about Hollywood and being on a books list. The scene shifts to show them standing near a desk with another person visible in the background.

“How long have you been in Hollywood?” 12:41 · “Well, it's about a month now.” 12:43 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 12:42 (passage 12:41–13:03); US record: No renewal found

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