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Pygmalion · Beat 26 · permalink

Living room

19:57–20:55 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 20:0220:02Frame at 20:0920:09Frame at 20:3720:37Frame at 20:5320:53

Play from 19:57 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 81–85. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman with curly hair, wearing dark clothing, visible in close-up visible
  • man in suit, standing, mid-adult, visible in medium shot visible
  • woman seated, wearing dark dress and hat, visible in frame 1 visible
  • man in dark coat, leaning toward woman, visible in frame 3 visible
  • Eliza (named at t:20:25): woman holding a cup, seated, wearing dark coat, visible in frame 4 visible
Seen happening
  • Three people stand in a room with furniture and a piano. [frame:1]
  • A woman with curly hair looks to the side. [frame:2]
  • A man leans toward a woman holding a cup. [frame:3]
  • A woman sits holding a cup, looking off-camera. [frame:4]
Also said
“You're going to live here for six months.” 20:47 · “and learn to speak beautifully like a lady in a florist shop.” 20:49
Seen
piano [frame:1], cup [frame:3, frame:4], chocolate box [frame:3], hat [frame:1], curtains [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: class transformation, power dynamics, education as control; style notes: static medium and close-up shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, theatrical staging

A man and a woman argue in a room while another woman observes; the man offers chocolates to the younger woman and tells her she will live with them for six months to learn to speak like a lady. The setting appears to be an interior room with furniture and decor visible.

“What's to become of her when you've finished with her teaching?” 20:00 · “Have a chocolate, Eliza.” 20:25 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 20:02 (passage 19:57–20:55); US record: No renewal found

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