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A Star Is Born · Beat 74 · permalink

Bar

25:58–27:11 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; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 3 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 26:0326:03Frame at 26:2326:23Frame at 26:3526:35Frame at 27:0527:05

Play from 25:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 172–178. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:2, frame:4
People
  • man, middle-aged, dark hair, wearing a tuxedo and bow tie, seated visible, audible
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a dark top and gold skirt, standing visible, audible
  • man, middle-aged, dark hair, wearing a tuxedo, standing visible, audible
  • man, older, grey hair, wearing a tuxedo, standing in background visible
  • man, dark hair, wearing a tuxedo, seated at bar visible
  • man, back to camera, wearing dark suit, standing at bar visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a tuxedo sits and speaks on a telephone. [frame:1]
  • A woman and a man in tuxedos stand facing each other, appearing to argue. [frame:2]
  • The woman and man continue their interaction while another man stands behind them. [frame:3]
  • A man sits at a bar, looking toward someone off-screen; another man stands with his back to the camera. [frame:4]
Also said
“Oh, hello, man. What's the matter with Oliver? He looks like he'd had bad news.” 26:33 · “Scotch and soda.” 26:48
Seen
telephone, stone wall, bar counter, bar stools, tuxedos, gold skirt
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: social tension, professional pressure, alcohol consumption; style notes: medium shots, formal attire, dim lighting with strong contrast, stone wall backdrop suggesting a stylized set

A man in formal wear is on the phone while a woman and another man argue nearby; later, a man at a bar reacts to someone off-screen. The setting is an interior space with stone walls and bar fixtures.

“Oh, that's fine work, Libby.” 26:00 · “Why can't you forget those dopes at the studio for one night?” 26:07 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 26:03 (passage 25:58–27:11); US record: No renewal found

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