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His Girl Friday · Beat 85 · permalink

Private office

52:59–53:57 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). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names 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 53:2853:28

Play from 52:59 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 19 · shots 215–215. 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 and fedora, standing visible, audible
  • man in light coat and hat, seated at desk visible, audible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, standing visible, audible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, standing visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Men in suits and hats stand in an office, speaking to one another. [frame:1]
Also said
“What red uprising? There'll be no red uprising.” 53:55
Seen
desk, telephone, hats, suits
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: political accusation, media pressure, denial of scandal; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, formal attire, static framing

A group of men in suits and hats stand in an office, speaking to one another. One man asks about a red uprising, and another denies its existence.

“How can an unavoidable misfortune like this have any influence on the upright citizens of our fair city? Mr. Mayor, please, is there a red menace or ain't there?” 53:25 · “Hi, Your Honor. Any statement on the red uprising tomorrow?” 53:52 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 53:28 (passage 52:59–53:57); US record: No renewal found

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