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His Girl Friday · Beat 71 · permalink

Newsroom

46:43–47:03 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 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 46:4546:45Frame at 46:5146:51Frame at 46:5846:58Frame at 47:0147:01

Play from 46:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 12 · shots 188–192. 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
  • woman, dark suit, hat, carrying briefcase visible
  • man, dark coat, seen from behind visible
  • multiple people in background, indistinct visible
Seen happening
  • The woman stands in a dim room, holding a briefcase and looking upward. [frame:1]
  • The woman gestures and begins to move quickly. [frame:2]
  • The woman runs past a man in a dark coat toward a windowed area with other people in the background. [frame:3]
  • The woman and man are near a window with blinds; the scene is dark. [frame:4]
Also said
“Hey! Wait here, Mr. Paul!” 46:51 · “Oh, my God.” 46:56
Seen
briefcase [frame:1], window with blinds [frame:4], desk or table with papers [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: haste, pursuit, newsroom urgency; style notes: high-contrast black and white, deep focus, dynamic movement captured in medium and long shots

A woman in a dark suit and hat calls out and runs through a large, dimly lit room with other people present. A man in a dark coat is seen from behind as she runs past him toward a windowed area.

“Hey, Cooney!” 46:43 · “Wait!” 46:46 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 46:45 (passage 46:43–47:03); US record: No renewal found

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