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His Girl Friday · Beat 28 · permalink

Restaurant

17:09–17:50 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; 4 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 17:1517:15Frame at 17:2817:28Frame at 17:4317:43

Play from 17:09 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 68–70. 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, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • man in dark suit, patterned tie, seated at table visible, audible
  • man in light suit, dark tie, seated at table, holding glass visible, audible
  • man in tuxedo, standing, holding notepad and pen visible
  • woman in dark coat and hat, seated, drinking from glass visible
Also said
“I don't get it. Ouch!” 17:36 · “Coffee, Gus.” 17:45
Seen
glassware [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3], silver pitcher [frame:2], notepad and pen [frame:3], tuxedo [frame:3], hat [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: wry and conversational; themes: business ethics, social interaction, misunderstanding; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static framing emphasizing dialogue

Two men sit at a table in a busy restaurant while a waiter serves them and a woman drinks nearby. One man speaks about insurance and helping people after death, and the other reacts with confusion before asking for coffee.

“Still, look at that. It might have been a good idea if we... If I had taken a little insurance. Well, I honestly feel that way. Yeah, I figure I'm in one business that really helps people. Yeah.” 17:22 · “Of course, we don't help you much while you're alive, but...” 17:30 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 17:15 (passage 17:09–17:50); US record: No renewal found

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