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His Girl Friday · Beat 66 · permalink

Private office

44:16–44:57 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 44:2144:21Frame at 44:3744:37Frame at 44:5344:53

Play from 44:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 12 · shots 164–166. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, heavyset, balding, holding papers visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, medium build, receding hairline, gesturing visible, audible
  • man in light shirt, thin, mustache, seated, hands on lap visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand facing each other, holding papers and talking. [frame:1]
  • The seated man looks upward with a weary expression. [frame:3]
Also said
“I can discuss some of the psychological aspects of the case and you... You mean we'd have our pictures taken together? Yes, yes, shaking hands. Oh, splendid idea.” 44:41 · “Can't I go back to jail again?” 44:55
Seen
desk, telephone, papers, chair
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and weary; themes: media manipulation, exhaustion, institutional power; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast lighting, static framing, studio set with period furniture

Two men in suits discuss a joint press statement while a third man in a shirt sits nearby; one of the standing men suggests a photo opportunity, and the seated man expresses fatigue and a desire to return to jail.

“Of course, I did rather promise to make them some sort of statement when I finished here. You don't mind, will you?” 44:30 · “Well, what do you say to giving them some sort of joint interview?” 44:38 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 44:21 (passage 44:16–44:57); US record: No renewal found

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