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His Girl Friday · Beat 26 · permalink

Restaurant

15:56–16:36 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; 3 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 16:1216:12Frame at 16:2916:29Frame at 16:3316:33

Play from 15:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 2 · shots 62–64. 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 dark suit, seen from back and side, seated at table visible
  • Bruce (named at t:16:12): man in light suit, dark hair, clean-shaven, seated at table visible, audible
  • woman with dark curly hair, wearing a striped suit and a hat, seated at table visible
Also said
“She deserves all this happiness, Bruce, all the things I couldn't give her.” 16:12 · “Just a minute. Oh, you're gonna live with your mother? Well, just for the first year.” 16:25
Seen
table with glasses and bottles, woman's striped suit and hat, man's light suit and bow tie
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: marriage, domesticity, social expectations; style notes: close-up and medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, studio set with shallow depth of field

Three people sit at a table in a dimly lit interior, discussing marriage and moving to Albany. One man speaks about giving a woman a home, while another man and a woman listen and respond.

“This is your chance to have a home and to be...” 16:02 · “Like you said, a human being. I'm gonna make you take that chance. Certainly. Why, I wouldn't let her stay.” 16:05 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 16:12 (passage 15:56–16:36); US record: No renewal found

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