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His Girl Friday · Beat 53 · permalink

Jail

32:41–33:13 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 32:5732:57

Play from 32:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 7 · shots 141–141. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
jail (jail, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light shirt and dark pants, standing inside a cell visible
  • person in dark clothing, standing outside the cell visible
Seen happening
  • A man inside a jail cell speaks to someone outside the cell. [frame:1]
Also said
“I'm not guilty.” 33:09 · “It's just the world.” 33:11
Seen
jail cell bars, metal frame inside cell, bed or cot inside cell
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and defensive; themes: innocence, justice, isolation; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static medium shot, confined framing emphasizing imprisonment

A man in a jail cell speaks to someone off-screen, denying guilt in a killing and claiming it was an accident. The setting is a jail cell with bars and a metal frame visible.

“So you see, I couldn't plead insanity because I'm just as sane as anybody else.” 32:59 · “You didn't mean to kill that policeman? Well, of course not. It's against everything I've ever stood for.” 33:02 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 32:57 (passage 32:41–33:13); US record: No renewal found

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