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His Girl Friday · Beat 115 · permalink

Private office

1:11:51–1:12:15 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). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name 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 1:12:031:12:03

Play from 1:11:51 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 289–289. 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
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light suit, fedora, holding gloves visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man stands near a window in a room with city lights visible outside. [frame:1]
Also said
“Oh, come on down. The moon's out.” 72:01 · “Fine, three caps is me, don't forget. How you doing? Got enough air? Not very much. That better? The city printed.” 72:08
Seen
fedora, suit, gloves, window showing city lights, leather couch, wooden chair
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: urgency, deception, urban nightlife; style notes: high-contrast lighting, medium shot, window framing cityscape at night, period costume

A man in a suit stands in a dimly lit room with a window showing city lights at night. He speaks about holding up for 50 minutes and handling others who will return to phone.

“Good, stay on this wire. Push it on his way over. All we gotta do is hold up for 50 minutes.” 71:54 · “The boys will be back. They'll be coming in here to phone. I'll handle them.” 71:57 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 1:12:03 (passage 1:11:51–1:12:15); US record: No renewal found

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