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A Star Is Born · Beat 78 · permalink

Bar

28:31–28:55 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; 3 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 28:3328:33Frame at 28:4628:46

Play from 28:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 189–190. 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
People
  • man in black tuxedo with bow tie and white pocket square, mid-adult, medium build visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, standing at bar counter, facing away from camera visible
  • blurred figures in background, indistinct clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a tuxedo speaks with an expressive face. [frame:1]
  • Two men stand at a bar counter; one appears to be ordering or receiving a drink. [frame:2]
Also said
“- Not more.” 28:48 · “Yes, I-- pardon me.” 28:50
Seen
tuxedo [frame:1], bow tie [frame:1], bar counter [frame:2], glassware [frame:2], dark suit [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or conversational; themes: social interaction, drink ordering, formal attire; style notes: medium close-up and medium shot, dim ambient lighting with focused highlights, classic Hollywood studio lighting

A man in a tuxedo speaks at a bar while another man stands at the bar counter; the transcript includes dialogue about ordering drinks. The setting is dimly lit with other patrons visible in the background.

“Scotch and soda.” 28:34 · “And a little soda.” 28:47 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 28:33 (passage 28:31–28:55); US record: No renewal found

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