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His Girl Friday · Beat 91 · permalink

Private office

57:41–57:58 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 57:5057:50

Play from 57:41 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 223–223. 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, holding telephone receiver to ear, mid-40s, average build visible, audible
  • man in dark suit and bowler hat, holding papers, mid-40s, average build visible
Also said
“Pass the word alive. $500 to the man who does it.” 57:50 · “Hi, Hildy.” 57:57
Seen
telephone, bowler hat, desk, wall-mounted framed pictures
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: authority, urgency, media; style notes: medium two-shot, high-contrast lighting, studio set with minimal depth

Two men are in an office; one is on the phone giving orders to shoot to kill, while the other listens. A voice greets someone named Hildy off-screen.

“Shoot to kill.” 57:48 · “That's the orders.” 57:49 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 57:50 (passage 57:41–57:58); US record: No renewal found

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