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His Girl Friday · Beat 102 · permalink

Private office

1:01:39–1:02:12 Released 1940; registered 1939

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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:01:561:01:56

Play from 1:01:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 249–249. 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
  • man, mid-30s to 40s, wearing suit, visible in profile visible, audible
  • Molly (named at t:61:40): woman, mid-30s to 40s, wearing dark dress with floral headpiece, visible from behind visible, audible
  • Mr. Curley (named at t:61:52): not visible mentioned
Also said
“They were beautiful. - That's all right, Mr. Curley.” 61:52 · “Let him take me. What do you want to visit me? I'll never let him go.” 62:07
Seen
desk lamp, telephone, floral headpiece
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: deception, escape, romantic tension, media pressure; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up, high-contrast lighting, dramatic shadows, static camera

A man and a woman are in a dimly lit interior space; the man speaks urgently while the woman listens. The transcript includes dialogue about roses, reporters, and an attempt to escape through a hole.

“- Hello, Molly. - How did you get in here?” 61:40 · “I didn't mean shooting. Really, I didn't. Be quiet. You believe me, don't you, Molly? Sure, I believe you.” 61:43 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 1:01:56 (passage 1:01:39–1:02:12); US record: No renewal found

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