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A Star Is Born · Beat 64 · permalink

Bedroom

22:12–22:39 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 22:2222:22Frame at 22:3522:35

Play from 22:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 39 · shots 147–148. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, dark hair, wearing a brown jacket and striped tie, seated, hand to cheek visible, audible
  • woman, red hair, wearing a light-colored sweater, seated on a bed, hands clasped or near face visible
Seen happening
  • The man and woman are seated together in a dim room, the man resting his head on his hand, the woman looking downcast. [frame:1]
  • The woman looks up slightly while the man continues speaking, both still seated. [frame:2]
Also said
“And he wanted me to get him an extra waitress, and it's $5. And I thought of you right away yesterday. That was Dr. Swood on the day.” 22:27 · “Well, there's going to be a lot of big people at Bert's house tonight, and I'll bet you there's any number of big directors.” 22:37
Seen
bed, pillow, brown jacket, striped tie, sweater
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate and contemplative; themes: opportunity and ambition, personal conversation in private space; style notes: close two-shot, low-key lighting, static camera, focused on character interaction

A man and a woman sit together in a dimly lit room; the man speaks about a waitress job at a party for a film director. The woman listens, appearing pensive, as the man mentions the opportunity to meet influential people.

“Well, it's kind of a picture job if you look at it right. You said it was a waitress. Well, it's waitressing for Casey Burke, the big director over at our studio. He's given a...” 22:12 · “party tonight to kind of celebrate on account of finishing the picture and” 22:23 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 22:22 (passage 22:12–22:39); US record: No renewal found

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