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A Star Is Born · Beat 98 · permalink

Bedroom

35:09–36:01 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 35:1635:16Frame at 35:4235:42

Play from 35:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 61 · shots 231–232. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:2
Time of day
night evidence: frame:2
People
  • Norman (named at t:35:32): man in striped pajamas, lying in bed, holding phone receiver visible, audible
Also said
“She's beautiful.” 35:47 · “Certainly, she's got wonderful possibilities.” 35:53
Seen
bed, pillow, blanket, alarm clock, telephone receiver, nightstand
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tired, reluctant, slightly exasperated; themes: late-night phone call, film industry, reluctant agreement; style notes: low-key lighting, close-up on bed, intimate framing, night setting

A man is in bed, speaking on the phone at night. He reacts to someone named Norman calling, discussing giving a woman a screen test.

“Norman!” 35:32 · “What have you done now?” 35:34 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 35:16 (passage 35:09–36:01); US record: No renewal found

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