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A Star Is Born · Beat 51 · permalink

Private office

17:44–18:17 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; 1 name 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 18:0018:00

Play from 17:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 33 · shots 120–120. 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
  • balding man, wearing dark suit and blue shirt, writing with pen visible
Seen happening
  • A man writes at a desk. [frame:1]
Also said
“Right, sir.” 18:01
Seen
desk [frame:1], pen [frame:1], papers [frame:1], inkwell or container on desk [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: focused, quiet; themes: work, transaction, formality; style notes: medium close-up, low-key lighting, studio set

A man in a dark suit writes at a desk in a dimly lit interior. The transcript includes brief dialogue about a race and an affirmation.

“- There you go. - First race.” 17:58 · “I guess.” 18:01 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 18:00 (passage 17:44–18:17); US record: No renewal found

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