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Pygmalion · Beat 19 · permalink

Private office

16:00–16:20 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 16:0016:00Frame at 16:1116:11

Play from 16:00 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 7 · shots 46–47. 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, middle-aged, wearing dark suit, seated at piano visible
  • man, dark-skinned, standing behind piano, wearing dark jacket visible
  • woman, wearing dark hat and coat, standing near desk visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man sits at a piano while another man stands behind him. [frame:1]
  • A woman enters and stands near a desk, facing the seated man. [frame:2]
Also said
“I'm come to have lessons, I am. And to pay for them too, make no mistake. Well, I say figuring.” 16:05 · “Shall we ask this object to sit down or shall we throw her out of the window? I won't be called an object when I've offered to pay like any lady.” 16:14
Seen
piano, sheet music, desk, hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: class conflict, gender roles, payment and dignity; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal framing

A man sits at a piano while another man stands behind him; a woman in a hat enters and speaks to them. The dialogue indicates a dispute over payment and treatment.

“Good enough for what? Good enough for you.” 16:00 · “So now you know, don't you?” 16:03 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 16:00 (passage 16:00–16:20); US record: No renewal found

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