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A Star Is Born · Beat 77 · permalink

Bar

28:17–28:31 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 28:1828:18Frame at 28:2328:23Frame at 28:2728:27Frame at 28:3028:30

Play from 28:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 185–188. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man in tuxedo with mustache, middle-aged, medium build visible, audible
  • man in tuxedo, younger, clean-shaven, standing at bar visible
  • man in formal wear with white shirt and patterned vest, older, gaunt face visible
Seen happening
  • A hand holds a token that reads 'GOOD FOR AMUSEMENT ONLY'. [frame:1]
  • A man in a tuxedo speaks to another man in a tuxedo. [frame:2]
  • A man stands at a bar with drinks and other patrons in the background. [frame:3]
  • A man in formal wear looks directly at the camera with a serious expression. [frame:4]
Also said
“Scotch and soda.” 28:28
Seen
token [frame:1], tuxedo [frame:2, frame:3], bar counter [frame:3], formal wear [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: melancholic; themes: alcohol consumption, social ritual, personal reflection; style notes: studio-lit close-ups and medium shots, high contrast lighting, formal attire suggests evening setting

A man in a tuxedo holds a token reading 'GOOD FOR AMUSEMENT ONLY' and speaks about having a drink; another man in formal wear is shown at a bar and then in a close-up with a serious expression. The setting is a dimly lit bar with other patrons and bartenders visible.

“And now I think I'll, um...” 28:20 · “Have a little drink.” 28:23 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 28:18 (passage 28:17–28:31); US record: No renewal found

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