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His Girl Friday · Beat 125 · permalink

Private office

1:18:31–1:19:05 Released 1940; registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: visible event not seen. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:18:461:18:46Frame at 1:19:031:19:03

Play from 1:18:31 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 26 · shots 305–306. 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 in light suit, dark tie, fedora hat, medium build visible, audible
  • woman in dark suit, holding papers, standing near window visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Man stands in office while woman reads papers. [frame:1]
  • Man points at camera. [frame:2]
Also said
“Don't open that door.” 78:43 · “What do you mean by breaking in here like this?” 79:00
Seen
fedora hat, desk lamp, papers, fan, bookshelf
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, workplace tension; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast lighting, static camera, period costume

A man in a suit and hat stands in an office while a woman reads papers; he later points at the camera. Dialogue includes demands to help lift something, a threat to find Mrs. Baldwin, and an accusation of breaking in.

“Hey, come here, see if we can lift it.” 78:43 · “I'm gonna find Mrs. Baldwin.” 78:43 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 1:18:46 (passage 1:18:31–1:19:05); US record: No renewal found

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