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A Star Is Born · Beat 42 · permalink

Private office

15:07–15:19 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 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 15:0815:08Frame at 15:0915:09Frame at 15:1215:12Frame at 15:1715:17

Play from 15:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 27 · shots 101–104. 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:3
People
  • balding man with mustache, wearing dark suit and tie visible
  • man in dark suit, seen from back or side visible
  • woman in dark dress, entering room visible
  • unspecified, voice only audible
Seen happening
  • A man sits at a desk with papers and a telephone. [frame:3]
  • Two people are seen in close proximity, one in a green garment. [frame:2]
  • A woman enters a room with a hanging light and plants. [frame:4]
Also said
“Hey, don't be that way.” 15:09
Seen
desk, telephone, papers, hanging light, potted plants
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or dramatic; themes: confrontation, interruption, emotional appeal; style notes: low-key lighting, close-ups, medium shots, dark costumes and sets

A man in a suit sits at a desk while another man stands nearby; a woman enters a dimly lit room. The transcript includes a voice saying 'Oh, no, look at your darling' and 'Hey, wait a minute.'

“Oh, no, look at your darling.” 15:09 · “Hey, wait a minute.” 15:09 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 15:08 (passage 15:07–15:19); US record: No renewal found

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