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His Girl Friday · Beat 95 · permalink

Private office

58:56–59:02 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 58:5958:59

Play from 58:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 20 · shots 231–231. 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
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a dark suit jacket and light blouse, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • A woman reaches toward a desk with her right hand. [frame:1]
Seen
desk [frame:1], typewriters [frame:1], overhead lamp [frame:1], papers [frame:1], telephone [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: focused, busy; themes: workplace, professionalism; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast lighting from overhead lamp, cluttered desk suggests active workspace

A woman in a dark suit stands at a cluttered desk in an office, reaching for something. The scene is lit by a large overhead lamp and shows typewriters and papers on the desk.

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 58:59 (passage 58:56–59:02); US record: No renewal found

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