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Beat 1

0:00–1:00 Released 1940; registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 0:300:30

Play from 0:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: start of film. Sequence 1 · shots 0–0. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Seen
title card
On screen
Screen Play by CHARLES LEDERER From the Play "THE FRONT PAGE" by BEN HECHT and CHARLES MACARTHUR as produced by JED HARRIS
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; style notes: static title card with high-contrast black text on a newspaper texture; no camera movement or lighting variation

The beat shows a title card crediting Charles Lederer as screenwriter, based on the play 'The Front Page' by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, produced by Jed Harris. No characters or actions are visible.

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 His Girl Friday (1940) at 0:30 (passage 0:00–1:00); US record: No renewal found

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