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His Girl Friday · Beat 5 · permalink

Newsroom

2:14–2:36 Released 1940; registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 2:162:16Frame at 2:202:20Frame at 2:272:27Frame at 2:352:35

Play from 2:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 2 · shots 10–13. 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
  • woman, wearing a striped suit, dark hat, and gloves, mid-30s, slim build visible
  • Jim (named at t:2:14): man, wearing a suit and tie, smiling, mid-40s, average build visible, audible
  • man, seated at desk, wearing dark suit, back to camera visible
  • man, standing near window, wearing dark suit visible
  • Beatrice (named at t:2:14): woman, partially visible, wearing dark dress, standing near doorway visible
Seen happening
  • A woman enters the newsroom and is greeted by multiple colleagues. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit smiles and speaks to the woman as she walks past. [frame:2]
  • The woman walks away from the camera, passing other staff. [frame:3]
  • The woman stands facing forward, looking serious. [frame:4]
Also said
“What?” 2:29 · “A little more round of chin, boys.” 2:34
Seen
typewriter [frame:2], desk [frame:1], clock on wall [frame:1], hats [frame:1, frame:4], striped suit [frame:1, frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lively and bustling; themes: return to workplace, collegial greetings, gender roles in journalism; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast lighting, static camera, period costumes

A woman in a striped suit and hat walks through a busy newsroom, greeted by colleagues. A man in a suit speaks to her as she moves past desks and typewriters.

“Oh, hello, Jim. Hello, Hildy. How are you? Hi, Hildy. Welcome back. Hello, Hildy. How have you been? Good. Hi, Hildy. Hello, Hildy. Oh, hello, Beatrice. How's advice to the love lawn? Fine. My cat just had kittens again. It's her own fault. Hello, Hildy. Glad she.” 2:14 · “- Relax.” 2:28 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 2:16 (passage 2:14–2:36); US record: No renewal found

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