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His Girl Friday · Beat 9 · permalink

Newsroom

3:49–4:22 Released 1940; registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 3:503:50Frame at 4:054:05Frame at 4:204:20

Play from 3:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 2 · shots 22–24. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(newsroom, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • woman, mid-30s, wearing a striped suit and a tall hat, standing visible, audible
  • man, mid-40s, wearing a suit and tie, seated at a desk visible, audible
Also said
“How long is it?” 4:16 · “How long is it since we've seen each other?” 4:20
Seen
striped suit, tall hat, desk, telephone, office chair, windows with daylight
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and nostalgic; themes: reunion, past relationships, professional setting; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast lighting, static camera, period costumes

A woman in a striped suit and hat stands in an office while a man in a suit sits at a desk; they exchange dialogue about a lamp and time apart. The setting includes office furniture and a telephone, with natural light from windows.

“There's been a lamp burning in the window for you, honey. Here.” 3:51 · “Oh, I jumped out that window a long time ago, Walnut.” 3:54 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 3:50 (passage 3:49–4:22); US record: No renewal found

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