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His Girl Friday · Beat 2 · permalink

Newsroom

1:00–1:18 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:041:04Frame at 1:131:13

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

Evidence and details

Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends. Sequence 2 · shots 1–2. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(newsroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light shirt, seated at desk, visible back and side visible
  • woman with dark hair, side profile, seated at desk, wearing dark top visible
  • woman with light hair, seated, wearing light-colored blouse, visible in background visible
  • man in dark suit, standing in background visible
  • unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A man is seated at a desk, working, visible in frame 1. [frame:1]
  • A woman is seated at a desk, using a phone, visible in frame 2. [frame:2]
Also said
“Morning Post.” 1:11 · “- Anybody ask me, I'm down. - Morning, Paul. - Team, morning, Paul. - Elevator, call them downtown.” 1:16
Seen
typewriters [frame:1], telephones [frame:2], desks [frame:1], office chairs [frame:1], paper stacks [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: busy and urgent; themes: workplace dynamics, communication under pressure; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, high-contrast lighting, cluttered desks suggest a bustling newsroom

A newsroom scene with multiple people at desks; one person speaks on the phone while others work. The transcript includes dialogue about connecting calls and confirming information.

“Copy, boy. All right. I'm going to kill you.” 1:05 · “Thank you. Happy to have you all right back.” 1:07 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 1:04 (passage 1:00–1:18); US record: No renewal found

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