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Pygmalion · Beat 100 · permalink

Hotel lobby

56:22–56:48 Registered 1938

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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 56:2656:26Frame at 56:3556:35Frame at 56:4456:44

Play from 56:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 30 · shots 318–320. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
hotel_lobby (hotel lobby, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • Professor Higgins (named at t:56:24): man in tuxedo, bow tie, short hair, medium build visible, audible
  • Isabel (named at t:56:24): woman in light-colored formal gown, updo hairstyle visible, audible
  • woman in white blouse and dark skirt, short hair visible
  • man in tuxedo, balding, standing behind p1 visible
  • man in tuxedo, standing near staircase visible
Seen happening
  • A woman in a gown greets Professor Higgins. [frame:1]
  • The group stands in a grand hall with a chandelier and staircase; other guests are visible. [frame:2]
  • Professor Higgins turns toward the woman in the white blouse. [frame:3]
Also said
“- To Miss Duell, I... - Do you remember you so kindly addressed the guilt of the lady officer? - Yes, excuse me, but I... - No, this time... - I will tell you what...” 56:39
Seen
{'item': 'chandelier', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'staircase', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'tuxedo', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'formal gown', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'white blouse and dark skirt', 'frame': 3}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, slightly tense; themes: social class, introductions, misunderstanding; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, opulent setting

A man in a tuxedo is introduced to a woman in a formal gown at a social gathering; another woman in a white blouse and dark skirt stands nearby. The setting is an opulent interior with a chandelier and staircase, suggesting a high-society event.

“Professor Higgins! The very man I've been dying to meet! I'm Isabel of a son! - The third stage of the clown. - What?” 56:24 · “- Extraordinary people seem to get in everywhere nowadays. - Extraordinary. The Colonel Dickens. Unfortunately we were interrupted. Would you be so kind as to introduce us?” 56:31 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 56:26 (passage 56:22–56:48); US record: No renewal found

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