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His Girl Friday · Beat 140 · permalink

Beat 140

1:31:26–1:31:44 Released 1940; registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:31:311:31:31Frame at 1:31:391:31:39

Play from 1:31:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends. Sequence 28 · shots 358–359. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Seen
end credits text, end credits text
On screen
ERNEST TRUEX CLIFF EDWARDS CLARENCE KOLB ROSCOE KARNS FRANK JENKS REGIS TOOMEY ABNER BIBERMAN FRANK ORTH Duffy JOHN QUALEN HELEN MACK ALMA KRUGER GILBERT / ABNER BIBERMAN Duffy FRANK ORTH Williams JOHN QUALEN HELEN MACK Baldwin KRUGER BILLY GILBERT Warden PAT WEST Dn. EDWIN MAXWELL THE CHARACTERS AN Louie . . . . . . ABNER BIBERMAN Duffy . . . . . . FRANK ORTH Earl Williams . . . . . . JOHN QUALEN Mollie Malloy . . . . . . HELEN MACK Mrs Baldwin . . . . . . ALMA KRUGER Joe Pettibone . . . . . . BILLY GILBERT Warden Cooley . . . . . . PAT WEST Dr. Egglefkofer . . . . . . EDWIN MAXWELL THE CHARACTERS AND INCIDENTS PORTRAYED AND THE NAMES USED HEREIN, ARE FICTIONAL AND ANY SIMILARITY TO THE NAME, CHARACTER, OR HISTORY OF ANY PERSON IS ENTIRELY ACCIDENTAL AND UNINTENTIONAL.
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; style notes: static, typographic, high-contrast black-and-white text on a plain background, typical of 1940s film credits.

The final beat shows end credits rolling, listing actors and characters. No characters are visible or audible; the scene is a static display of text.

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 1:31:31 (passage 1:31:26–1:31:44); US record: No renewal found

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