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A Star Is Born · Beat 46 · permalink

Bar

16:24–16:36 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 16:2716:27Frame at 16:3316:33

Play from 16:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 29 · shots 111–112. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, dark suit, seen from back and side, medium build visible, audible
  • Finley (named at t:16:29): woman, red hair, green dress, seated at bar visible
Seen happening
  • The woman turns her head toward the man at the bar. [frame:1]
Also said
“Come here.” 16:32
Seen
bar counter [frame:1], bar stools [frame:1], bottles on shelves [frame:1], lamp on counter [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate, slightly tense; themes: personal confrontation, social interaction in public space; style notes: medium close-up, low-key lighting, bar setting with warm tones, static camera

A man and a woman are seated at a bar counter; the man speaks to the woman, who turns toward him. The setting is dimly lit with bar fixtures visible.

“I'm” 16:25 · “I beg your pardon. Finley.” 16:29 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 16:27 (passage 16:24–16:36); US record: No renewal found

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