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His Girl Friday · Beat 103 · permalink

Private office

1:02:12–1:02:29 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:02:131:02:13Frame at 1:02:211:02:21

Play from 1:02:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 250–251. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and fedora, side profile, standing near door visible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, smoking, standing behind p1 visible
  • Lydia (named at t:62:14): woman in dark dress and hat, partially visible, being pushed toward desk visible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand near a door; one looks toward it. [frame:1]
  • A woman is guided toward a desk by a man. [frame:2]
Also said
“I'm going to tell you. I'm fine.” 62:22
Seen
desk [frame:2], fedora hats [frame:1], cigarette [frame:1], wooden chair [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and hurried; themes: concealment, urgency, gendered roles in crisis; style notes: tight framing, high-contrast lighting, medium shots emphasizing character proximity and urgency

Two men in hats stand near a door in a dimly lit interior; a woman is urged to hide in a desk. One man speaks about the locked door and tells the woman to get into the desk.

“Hey, who locked the door?” 62:12 · “Oh, it's too late. No, it isn't. Oh, get in this desk. Come on, Lydia.” 62:14 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 1:02:13 (passage 1:02:12–1:02:29); US record: No renewal found

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