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A Star Is Born · Beat 99 · permalink

Bedroom

36:01–36:23 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; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 36:0536:05Frame at 36:1636:16

Play from 36:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 61 · shots 233–234. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, shirtless, lying in bed, holding a telephone receiver visible, audible
  • Oliver (named at t:36:05): unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A man is lying in bed holding a telephone receiver to his ear. [frame:2]
Also said
“sincerity and honestness that makes great actresses.” 36:10 · “Oliver, I am so sure of this girl... that I want to take the test with them myself.” 36:20
Seen
telephone receiver, bed with pillows and blanket, bedside table with lamp, curtains
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate, conversational; themes: personal conviction, career evaluation, private conversation; style notes: close framing on the man in bed, dim lighting with a single overhead source, mid-shot showing bed and room details

A man lies in bed speaking on the phone while another person is heard off-screen discussing a woman's acting potential. The setting is a dimly lit bedroom with modern furnishings.

“Oh, no.” 36:03 · “I tell you, Oliver, she's got that sincerity and honestness and a...” 36:05 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 36:05 (passage 36:01–36:23); US record: No renewal found

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