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Pygmalion · Beat 25 · permalink

Private office

19:28–19:57 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 19:3019:30Frame at 19:4119:41Frame at 19:4719:47Frame at 19:5619:56

Play from 19:28 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 72–80. 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 round glasses and a dark jacket over a collared shirt, holding a small object visible, audible
  • Eliza (named at t:19:47): woman, young, with curly hair adorned with flowers, wearing a dark dress visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man holds a small object and speaks to the woman. [frame:1]
  • The woman looks toward the man with a concerned expression. [frame:2]
  • The man adjusts his glasses while speaking. [frame:3]
  • The woman speaks with visible emotion. [frame:4]
Also said
“Have you, Eliza?” 19:47 · “I got my feelings, as they must anywhere else.” 19:49
Seen
small object held by man [frame:1], round glasses [frame:1], flower-adorned curly hair [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: class, agency, gender roles; style notes: close-up shots, high-contrast lighting, static camera framing

A man and a woman argue about the woman's future and feelings in an indoor setting. The man holds an object while speaking, and the woman responds with visible emotion.

“Very well, then the girl doesn't belong to anybody. She's no use to anybody but me. What's to become of her? Is she to be paid anything? Do be sensible, Mr. Higgins.” 19:30 · “Now what on earth would she do with money? She'll get her food and her clothes. She'll only drink if you give her money. It's a lie!” 19:36 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 19:30 (passage 19:28–19:57); US record: No renewal found

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