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57:57–58:08 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 57:5857:58Frame at 58:0158:01Frame at 58:0458:04Frame at 58:0758:07

Play from 57:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 32 · shots 327–330. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, dark hair styled up, wearing a tiara and formal gown visible
  • Miss Doodlet (named at t:58:05): older woman, blonde hair in an updo, wearing a formal dress and long gloves, pointing visible, audible
  • man, dark hair, wearing a tuxedo with a bow tie and medal visible
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a light-colored dress with a flower corsage visible
Seen happening
  • A woman points at another woman while speaking. [frame:2]
  • A man in a tuxedo smiles while standing next to a woman. [frame:3]
Also said
“Miss Doodlet.” 58:05
Seen
tiara [frame:1], chandelier [frame:2], evening gloves [frame:2], tuxedo with bow tie [frame:3], flower corsage [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and tense; themes: social hierarchy, formal address, public confrontation; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal attire suggests a gala or reception

A woman in formal attire speaks to another woman in a crowded indoor setting, while a man in evening wear is visible among the guests. The transcript includes the phrases 'Follow me' and 'Miss Doodlet', indicating a direct address.

“I” 58:00 · “Follow me.” 58:02 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 57:58 (passage 57:57–58:08); US record: No renewal found

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