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His Girl Friday · Beat 70 · permalink

Newsroom

46:15–46:43 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 46:2346:23Frame at 46:3646:36Frame at 46:3746:37Frame at 46:4246:42

Play from 46:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 12 · shots 182–187. 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 coat and hat, holding a pistol visible
  • man in dark coat, standing near doorway visible
  • man in police uniform, standing outside visible
  • man on motorcycle, wearing helmet visible
  • man in dark coat, visible in doorway visible
Seen happening
  • A woman aims a pistol inside an office. [frame:1]
  • Motorcycles with headlights approach a building at night. [frame:2]
  • Men stand in a doorway, one holding a gun. [frame:3]
  • Police officers stand outside a building as a motorcycle arrives. [frame:4]
Also said
“We just escaped from the county jail.” 46:24 · “Yeah, yeah, don't worry, I'm on the job.” 46:27
Seen
pistol [frame:1], motorcycles [frame:2], police uniforms [frame:4], desk lamp [frame:1], telephone [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: escape, pursuit, newsroom chaos; style notes: high-contrast black and white, tight framing on characters, dramatic lighting from overhead lamps and vehicle headlights

A woman in a dark coat aims a pistol inside an office while men on motorcycles approach outside. A group of men, including police officers, stand near a building entrance as vehicles with headlights arrive.

“Go!” 46:16 · “Pull close to getting all the birds. Quick, kill the Johnson.” 46:19 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 46:23 (passage 46:15–46:43); US record: No renewal found

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