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His Girl Friday · Beat 58 · permalink

Newsroom

37:43–37:47 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). 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 37:4537:45

Play from 37:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 10 · shots 154–154. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(newsroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, dark dress, hat with floral decoration, carrying a coat visible
Seen happening
  • A woman walks through a room carrying a coat. [frame:1]
Seen
coat, hat with floral decoration, filing cabinet, desk
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: hurried; themes: movement, professional setting; style notes: medium shot, black and white, high contrast lighting, shallow depth of field

A woman in a dark dress and hat walks through an interior space carrying a coat. The setting appears to be a cluttered office or newsroom with desks and filing cabinets visible.

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 37:45 (passage 37:43–37:47); US record: No renewal found

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