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His Girl Friday · Beat 60 · permalink

Newsroom

37:50–38:19 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; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 38:0438:04

Play from 37:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 12 · shots 156–156. 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, dark hair, wearing dark dress with light collar, holding tray visible
  • man, wearing fedora, dark suit, seated in chair visible
  • man, wearing hat and vest, seated at desk visible
Seen happening
  • A woman stands holding a tray while two men sit in an office. [frame:1]
Also said
“Sitting there this minute with the angel of death beside him and you cracking jokes. All right now, kids, you're going to get out of here. Come on. Come on, get out of me. Come on, Molly, let's get out of here. Oh, they're human.” 38:02 · “I know, they're newspaper men. All they've been doing is lying. All they've been doing is writing lies. Why won't they listen to me?” 38:11
Seen
tray [frame:1], desk [frame:1], chair [frame:1], hat [frame:1], fedora [frame:1], lamp [frame:1], poster on wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: conflict, media ethics, moral outrage; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, static framing, black-and-white film

A woman stands holding a tray while two men sit in an office; one man is seated in a chair, the other at a desk. The transcript includes dialogue about newspapermen lying and someone being told to leave.

“What's that?” 37:50 · “They're fixing up a pain in the neck for your boyfriend.” 37:51 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 38:04 (passage 37:50–38:19); US record: No renewal found

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