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His Girl Friday · Beat 101 · permalink

Private office

1:01:08–1:01:39 Released 1940; registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 1:01:241:01:24

Play from 1:01:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 22 · shots 248–248. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Molly (named at t:61:16): woman, dark hair styled up, wearing dark dress, visible in profile visible, audible
  • woman, dark hair with floral accessory, wearing dark dress, facing p1 visible, audible
  • Robert (named at t:61:33): man, not visible mentioned
Seen happening
  • Molly pleads with the other woman for information about where people have gone. [frame:1]
Mentioned
  • Robert is mentioned as being present. [t:61:33]
Also said
“- Molly, don't go. - Oh, come in, Molly. Robert's here.” 61:33
Seen
doorframe [frame:1], stair railing [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: urgency, conflict, information as power; style notes: close two-shot, high-contrast lighting, static framing

Two women are in a tense conversation in an interior space; one is pleading for information while the other resists but eventually reveals a location. The scene ends with a man named Robert being mentioned as present.

“Where is everybody? They're not here. They've all gone. Oh, please tell me where they've gone. Please tell me.” 61:16 · “All right, Molly, I'll tell you where they are. They're down at Center Street. Center and Fourth.” 61:16 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 His Girl Friday (1940) at 1:01:24 (passage 1:01:08–1:01:39); US record: No renewal found

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