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His Girl Friday · Beat 114 · permalink

Newsroom

1:11:31–1:11:51 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). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:11:371:11:37Frame at 1:11:451:11:45Frame at 1:11:471:11:47Frame at 1:11:501:11:50

Play from 1:11:31 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 25 · shots 285–288. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
newsroom (newsroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in a dark suit and fedora, holding a telephone receiver visible
  • woman in a hat and dark jacket, seated at a typewriter visible
  • man in a light shirt, lying on the floor under a desk visible
  • man in a light suit and fedora, standing behind p2 visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit holds a telephone receiver to his ear. [frame:1]
  • A man is lying on the floor under a desk, looking up. [frame:2]
  • A man in a suit stands behind a woman at a typewriter. [frame:3]
  • The man on the floor is seen again, looking up from under the desk. [frame:4]
Seen
telephone [frame:1], typewriter [frame:1], desk [frame:2], fedora [frame:1], radiator [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and chaotic; themes: press urgency, hidden activity, workplace chaos; style notes: tight framing on characters, high-contrast lighting, static camera shots

A man in a suit stands behind a woman at a typewriter while another man is seen lying on the floor. A voice gives instructions over the phone and asks about a taxi for Bush and his gang.

“- Don't stop building, keep it coming as fast as you can. Get back in there, you mock turtle.” 71:44 · “Hello Duffy, did he tell Bush and his gang to take a taxi as a matter of life and death?” 71:50 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 1:11:37 (passage 1:11:31–1:11:51); US record: No renewal found

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