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His Girl Friday · Beat 25 · permalink

Restaurant

15:18–15:56 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; 5 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 15:3715:37

Play from 15:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 2 · shots 61–61. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
restaurant (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in suit and tie, seated at table, smiling visible, audible
  • Bruce (named at t:15:29): man in suit and tie, seated at table, holding glass visible, audible
  • man in tuxedo, standing behind table visible
  • person in striped top, seated at table, partially visible visible
  • Hildy (named at t:15:24): unseen speaker audible
Also said
“bitch alive I kill you if ever work for anybody. I hear that Bruce that's my diploma. It must be quite a business.” 15:48 · “Hildy, are you sure you want to quit? Now, Bruce, what do you mean? Well, I mean, if there's any doubt about it or...” 15:54
Seen
wine glasses, water pitcher, table, suits and ties, striped top
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and sentimental; themes: farewell, professional loyalty, unpredictability; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, formal attire, table setting suggests a social scene

Two men sit at a table in a crowded restaurant while one speaks about Hildy, a newspaper person who is leaving. The speaker praises Hildy’s unpredictability and talent, and the other man, Bruce, expresses regret at her departure.

“But Hildy's not like that. You can't tell that about her.” 15:24 · “Yes, well, you're getting something else, too, Bruce. You're getting a great newspaper man. No orchids, Walden.” 15:29 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 15:37 (passage 15:18–15:56); US record: No renewal found

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