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His Girl Friday · Beat 138 · permalink

Police station

1:29:10–1:29:26 Released 1940; registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:29:111:29:11Frame at 1:29:191:29:19

Play from 1:29:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 27 · shots 355–356. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
police_station (police station, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in trench coat and fedora, holding phone receiver visible
  • uniformed officer, standing near bars visible
  • uniformed officer, standing near p1 visible
  • woman with dark hair, seated at desk, holding phone receiver visible
  • man in suit, standing behind p4 visible
  • Duffy (named at t:89:10): unseen speaker audible
Also said
“Oh, all right, huh?” 89:19 · “Oh.” 89:25
Seen
telephone receiver, police uniform, trench coat, desk with phones, suit, window showing city lights
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: deception, authority, communication; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, medium shots, dialogue-driven

A man in a trench coat speaks on the phone while two uniformed officers stand nearby; a woman at a desk also speaks on the phone while a man in a suit stands behind her. The transcript includes dialogue about counterfeit money and a name, Duffy.

“For having counterfeit money. Counterfeit money? Hold on a minute, Duffy. Well, where did you get it?” 89:10 · “I gave it to you.” 89:17 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 1:29:11 (passage 1:29:10–1:29:26); US record: No renewal found

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