Newsroom
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 45:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 12 · shots 168–170. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- newsroom (newsroom, interior) evidence: frame:3
- People
- man with mustache, wearing a button-up shirt, seated visible
- woman in a coat and hat, walking away visible
- Hildy Johnson (named at t:45:17): woman standing on a desk, wearing a dress or suit, addressing a group visible
- men in hats and suits, seated at desks with typewriters visible
- Seen happening
- A man sits in a chair with a surprised expression. [frame:1]
- A woman in a coat walks away from a seated man. [frame:2]
- A woman stands on a desk addressing a group of men seated at desks in a newsroom. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “It wasn't my fault. Send us a postcard. That'll do. Goodbye, Hildy. So long, Janssen. I want to see you again, Janssen. Next time you see me, I shall be riding in a Rolls Royce giving interviews on success. Goodbye. So long, you wage slaves. Bye. When you're calling a fire escape and getting kicked out of front doors, and eating Christmas dinners and one-arm joints, don't forget your pal, Hildy Johnson. And when the road beyond unfolds...” 45:17
- Seen
- chair, coat, hat, desk, typewriters, hats, lamp
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dramatic farewell with undertones of resignation and ambition; themes: farewell, journalism, ambition, class and labor; style notes: black-and-white, medium and wide shots, high-contrast lighting, newsroom setting with desks and typewriters, characters in period attire
A man in a shirt sits in a chair while a woman in a coat walks away from him; in another shot, a woman stands on a desk addressing a group of men seated at desks in a newsroom. The transcript includes a character named Hildy Johnson saying goodbye and referencing future success and past hardships.
“Now who do you feel is responsible for that?” 45:12 · “I am innocent.” 45:15 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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