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A Star Is Born · Beat 68 · permalink

Private office

23:50–24:01 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 4 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 23:5223:52Frame at 23:5823:58

Play from 23:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 41 · shots 154–155. 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
  • man, older, gray hair, wearing a black tuxedo with bow tie visible
  • woman, red hair, wearing dark dress with white apron, holding tray visible, audible
  • woman, dark hair, wearing blue dress, seated, holding a cake-like object visible
  • woman, dark hair, wearing dark dress, seated, partially obscured visible
Seen happening
  • A woman offers hors d'oeuvres from a tray to a man in a tuxedo. [frame:2]
Seen
tray with hors d'oeuvres, stone wall background, cake-like object held by seated woman
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and social; themes: social gathering, hospitality, pre-dinner ritual; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, stone wall backdrop, formal attire

A man in a tuxedo and a woman holding a tray of hors d'oeuvres stand in a stone-walled room; another woman sits nearby. The transcript mentions hors d'oeuvres being enjoyed before supper.

“Well, you have some hors d'oeuvres. You do like hors d'oeuvres, don't you? I don't think there's anything so enjoyable as hors d'oeuvres before supper, and these are really delightful.” 23:51 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 23:52 (passage 23:50–24:01); US record: No renewal found

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