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A Star Is Born · Beat 79 · permalink

Restaurant

28:55–29:06 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; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 28:5628:56Frame at 29:0029:00Frame at 29:0429:04Frame at 29:0629:06

Play from 28:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 191–194. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
restaurant (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman with red curly hair, wearing a dark dress with a light collar visible
  • man in a black tuxedo with bow tie and white pocket square visible
Seen happening
  • The woman holds a plate of food and speaks to the man. [frame:1]
  • The man looks at the woman and speaks. [frame:2]
  • The woman smiles while holding the plate. [frame:3]
  • The man continues speaking to the woman. [frame:4]
Also said
“No, I mean the caviar.” 28:58 · “No, don't go away. I'm starving.” 29:01
Seen
plate of food [frame:1], tuxedo [frame:2], bow tie [frame:2], window with shelves [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate; themes: romantic interaction, dining scene, dialogue-driven moment; style notes: medium close-ups, soft studio lighting, formal attire, shallow depth of field

A woman with red hair in a dark dress holds a plate of food while speaking to a man in a tuxedo. The man responds to her as they stand near a window with shelves visible behind them.

“Yes.” 28:55 · “Lovely.” 28:56 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 28:56 (passage 28:55–29:06); US record: No renewal found

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