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Pygmalion · Beat 11 · permalink

Post office

10:48–11:04 Registered 1938

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 10:5310:53Frame at 11:0211:02

Play from 10:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 3 · shots 29–30. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
post_office (shop, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • woman, young adult, wearing a dark hat and scarf, visible in frame:1 visible, audible
  • Colonel Pickering (named at t:11:02): man, middle-aged, wearing a bowler hat, dark suit, and bow tie, visible in frame:2 visible, audible
Also said
“I am Colonel Pickering.” 11:02 · “You don't believe that, do you, Captain? Well, Laverity,” 10:57
Seen
mailboxes [frame:2], bowler hat [frame:2], bow tie [frame:2], scarf [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: social class, identity, linguistics; style notes: medium close-up shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal attire suggests period setting

A woman in a hat and scarf speaks to a man in a bowler hat and suit; the man identifies himself as Colonel Pickering. The setting appears to be an interior with mailboxes visible.

“I could pass you off as” 10:49 · “Queen of Sheba.” 10:51 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 10:53 (passage 10:48–11:04); US record: No renewal found

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