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Pygmalion · Beat 16 · permalink

Private office

14:47–15:00 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 14:5314:53

Play from 14:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 4 · shots 41–41. 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
  • man in dark suit, leaning forward, wearing glasses visible
  • man in dark suit, seated, seen from behind visible
Seen happening
  • A man leans over a device while another man watches. [frame:1]
Seen
small figure on device [frame:1], device with screen and dials [frame:1], large dome-shaped object above device [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: curious and slightly tense; themes: technology, observation, deception; style notes: medium close-up, high-contrast lighting, static framing

A man leans over a device while another man watches; a small figure sits on the device. A line mentions concealing a microphone for unsuspecting victims.

“Conceal microphone.” 14:55 · “for unsuspecting victims.” 14:58 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 14:53 (passage 14:47–15:00); US record: No renewal found

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