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His Girl Friday · Beat 41 · permalink

Newsroom

26:35–26:39 Released 1940; registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 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 26:3626:36Frame at 26:3826:38

Play from 26:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 5 · shots 105–106. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
newsroom (newsroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a fedora, suit, and light-colored shirt visible
  • woman wearing a dark coat and hat, standing behind p1 visible
  • man in police uniform on a motorcycle visible
  • man in police uniform standing, holding a baton visible
  • silhouetted figures on a wall, including one in a police hat visible
Seen
fedora, suit, motorcycle, police uniform, baton, silhouettes on wall
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: authority, surveillance, urban professionalism; style notes: high-contrast lighting, deep focus, framing through doorways and windows

A man and a woman stand in a doorway of a newsroom; in another shot, police officers are near a motorcycle with silhouettes of figures on a wall. No dialogue is present in this beat.

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 26:36 (passage 26:35–26:39); US record: No renewal found

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