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Pygmalion · Beat 17 · permalink

Private office

15:00–15:31 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 15:1215:12Frame at 15:2715:27

Play from 15:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 5 · shots 42–43. 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 with glasses, dark suit, seated at a machine visible
  • man with light hair, suit, standing visible
  • unseen person, referred to as 'young woman' mentioned
  • man in background, partially visible, dark suit visible
Seen happening
  • The man in glasses operates a machine while another man stands nearby. [frame:1]
  • The man in glasses turns away from the machine, looking toward the door. [frame:2]
Also said
“All right. Has she an interesting accent?” 15:12 · “Go. Show her up at once.” 15:15
Seen
machine, glasses, curtains, window
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: anticipatory and clinical; themes: class distinction, scientific observation, linguistic curiosity; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal framing, studio-bound set

A man in glasses operates a machine while another man stands nearby; a third person is mentioned but not clearly visible. The dialogue indicates they are about to meet a young woman with an unusual accent for phonetic study.

“What is it, Mrs. Pierce? It's a young woman wants to see you, sir. Young woman? What does she want? She says you'll be glad when you know what she's come about.” 15:01 · “She's a very common girl, sir.” 15:07 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 15:12 (passage 15:00–15:31); US record: No renewal found

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