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His Girl Friday · Beat 81 · permalink

Newsroom

51:06–51:10 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). 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 51:0851:08

Play from 51:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 16 · shots 210–210. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(newsroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman with dark hair, wearing a striped jacket and a light-colored blouse, seated at a desk visible
Seen happening
  • A woman holds a telephone receiver to her ear while seated at a desk with multiple phones. [frame:1]
Seen
telephone receiver, desk with multiple telephones, wood-paneled wall
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: focused and busy; themes: workplace urgency, communication; style notes: medium close-up, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static framing emphasizing the character's concentration

A woman is seated at a desk with multiple telephones, holding one receiver to her ear. The setting appears to be an office with wood-paneled walls and vintage equipment.

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 51:08 (passage 51:06–51:10); US record: No renewal found

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