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Pygmalion · Beat 20 · permalink

Private office

16:20–16:56 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 16:2116:21Frame at 16:3916:39

Play from 16:20 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 8 · shots 48–49. 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 a suit with a pocket square and tie, mustache visible, audible
  • woman, young, dark hair with a floral accessory, wearing a dark dress with a flower brooch visible, audible
Also said
“Sit down.” 16:52 · “I thought you'd come off it when you saw a chance of getting back a bit of the money what you checked at me last night.” 16:46
Seen
large horn-shaped object, bookshelf, flower brooch, floral hair accessory
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and transactional; themes: class aspiration, gender roles, economic exchange; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, formal framing

A man in a suit and a woman in a dark dress with a flower are in an office-like interior; the woman speaks about wanting to be a lady in a shop and paying for lessons. The man responds with skepticism and tells her to sit down.

“I want to be a lady in a fly shop.” 16:23 · “I'm ready to pay. I'm not asking any favors.” 16:33 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 16:21 (passage 16:20–16:56); US record: No renewal found

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