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Pygmalion · Beat 1 · permalink

Beat 1

0:00–3:52 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:561:56

Play from 0:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: start of film. Sequence 1 · shots 0–0. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Seen happening
  • Title card displays text about Bernard Shaw's play and its modern interpretation. [frame:1]
Also said
“I'm going to go.” 3:17 · “Why? I found a tavern chuler in one last week. What a chuler? A tavern chuler. It's like a spider.” 3:35
Seen
Title card [frame:1]
On screen
BERNARD SHAW IN HIS FAMOUS PLAY GIVES A MODERN INTERPRETATION OF THIS THEME.
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, introductory; themes: theatrical adaptation, modern reinterpretation; style notes: static title card, high-contrast typography, theatrical presentation

A title card introduces Bernard Shaw's play with a modern interpretation. No characters or actions are visible in the single frame provided.

“Oh, my God.” 2:04 · “Come on.” 3:09 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 Pygmalion (1938) at 1:56 (passage 0:00–3:52); US record: No renewal found

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