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Pygmalion · Beat 21 · permalink

Private office

16:56–17:10 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; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 16:5816:58Frame at 17:0217:02Frame at 17:0617:06

Play from 16:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 8 · shots 50–52. 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
  • Eliza Dulig (named at t:17:00): woman, dark dress, hat with feather, mid-20s to 30s, medium build visible, audible
  • man, suit, tie, mustache, 40s-50s, medium build visible, audible
  • man, dark suit, partially visible in background, behind p1 visible
Also said
“Eliza Dulig.” 17:00 · “Won't you sit down, Miss Dunliffin?” 17:01
Seen
hat with feather, wall sconce, dark suit, tie, ornate window frame
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, slightly tense; themes: social class, miscommunication, introduction; style notes: medium close-ups, static framing, high-contrast lighting, studio set with ornate decor

A woman in a dark dress and hat speaks with a man in a suit inside a room with ornate decor; she identifies herself as Eliza Dulig and accepts an invitation to sit. A third person is partially visible in the background.

“Sit down.” 16:56 · “What's your name?” 16:57 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 16:58 (passage 16:56–17:10); US record: No renewal found

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