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His Girl Friday · Beat 30 · permalink

Restaurant

18:25–19:18 Released 1940; registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 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 18:4918:49Frame at 19:1619:16

Play from 18:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 2 · shots 74–75. 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
  • Bruce (named at t:18:29): man in suit and tie, seated at table visible, audible
  • Walter (named at t:18:33): man in suit with flower on lapel, seated at table visible, audible
  • Hildy (named at t:18:53): woman in dark coat and hat, seated at table visible, audible
Also said
“Well, I admit I wasn't much of a husband, but you can always count on me, Hilly.” 18:53 · “I'm happy.” 19:17
Seen
table with glasses and bottles, woman's hat with bow
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: marriage, misunderstanding, protectiveness, social class; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, static framing

Two men sit at a table in a restaurant while a woman speaks. A phone call interrupts the conversation, and the woman declares she is happy.

“Listen, Bruce, I, uh, let me get that straight. I must have misunderstood you.” 18:29 · “Your mother kicked the bucket. My mother. My mother. Oh, your mother. Oh, well, that relieves my mind.” 18:45 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 18:49 (passage 18:25–19:18); US record: No renewal found

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