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His Girl Friday · Beat 136 · permalink

Newsroom

1:27:00–1:27:10 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:27:051:27:05

Play from 1:27:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 27 · shots 352–352. 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, wearing light suit, fedora, holding telephone receiver visible, audible
  • woman, dark suit, standing beside p1, holding object visible
  • man, visible in background, out of focus visible
Seen happening
  • A man holds a telephone receiver to his ear while standing next to a woman in a newsroom. [frame:1]
Also said
“Well, where is he? Get him.” 87:08
Seen
telephone receiver, typewriter, desk with papers, overhead lamp
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: press, communication, urgency; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast lighting, studio set with visible props suggesting a busy newsroom

A man in a suit and hat holds a telephone receiver while a woman in a dark suit stands beside him in a newsroom; a third man is visible in the background. The transcript includes dialogue about jailbirds, a town, and calling someone named Duffy.

“Wait till those two future jailbirds read the morning post tomorrow. Tight squeeze, though. Give me Duffy. That's the worst town we've been in in a long time. Yeah.” 87:02 · “What?” 87:08 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 1:27:05 (passage 1:27:00–1:27:10); US record: No renewal found

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