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A Star Is Born · Beat 58 · permalink

Theatre

19:59–20:21 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 8 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 20:0020:00Frame at 20:0420:04Frame at 20:1420:14

Play from 19:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 130–132. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
theatre (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and tie, smiling, seated visible
  • woman with short dark hair, wearing dark coat, seated, hand near mouth visible
  • man in light-colored suit, standing, gesturing visible
  • man in light-colored fedora and dark coat, holding camera visible
  • man in dark suit, standing behind p3 visible
  • woman in fur stole, seated behind p1 and p2 visible
  • Mr. Mayne (named at t:20:07): unspecified person speaking off-screen audible
  • Miss Regis (named at t:20:07): unspecified person speaking off-screen audible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman are seated in a dark venue, smiling and looking forward. [frame:1]
  • A man in a light suit stands and gestures toward the seated couple. [frame:2]
  • A man in a fedora holds a camera and points it at the seated man. [frame:3]
Seen
camera [frame:3], fedora hat [frame:3], fur stole [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: celebrity and public image, media intrusion, social performance; style notes: dark lighting, medium close-ups, high contrast, staged for dramatic effect

A man and a woman are seated in a dark venue as photographers take pictures; a man in a hat approaches them. The transcript includes dialogue addressing 'Mr. Mayne' and 'Miss Regis' and mentions photographers and a 'Hollywood boat.'

“Oh, right out. Come on, Rob.” 20:00 · “Oh, Mr. Mayne. Mr. Mayne. Put your arm on Miss Regis. Oh, this is a Hollywood boat. Oh, afraid of crowds. Go on, go on, get out of here. What's the matter? You getting too big to bother with photographers? Don't want any pictures taken now. Oh, is that so? What's the person I taken anyway?” 20:07 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 20:00 (passage 19:59–20:21); US record: No renewal found

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