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Pygmalion · Beat 18 · permalink

Private office

15:31–16:00 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; 3 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 15:3815:38Frame at 15:5215:52

Play from 15:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 6 · shots 44–45. 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
  • woman, dark coat, hat with feather, holding a small bag visible
  • man, light suit, tie, standing to the left visible
  • Mr. Higgins (named at t:15:48): man, dark coat, standing to the right visible
Seen happening
  • A woman stands facing two men in a room with a staircase in the background. [frame:1]
  • The woman and one man look toward the other man, who appears to be speaking. [frame:2]
Also said
“Yeah, don't you be so saucy.” 15:43 · “You ain't heard what I come for yet.” 15:46
Seen
staircase, hat with feather, dark coat, light suit
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: class conflict, social status, negotiation; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costume

A woman in a dark coat and hat stands in a room with two men, one of whom speaks to her. The transcript indicates a dispute over lessons and payment, with references to Mr. Higgins and a taxi.

“Did you tell him I come in a taxi? You think a gentleman like Mr. Higgins cares what you came in? We are proud, aren't we?” 15:48 · “Well he ain't about giving lessons, not him heard him say so. And if my money's not good enough I can go elsewhere.” 15:55 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 15:38 (passage 15:31–16:00); US record: No renewal found

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