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Pygmalion · Beat 27 · permalink

Private office

20:55–21:11 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 21:0121:01Frame at 21:0921:09

Play from 20:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 8 · shots 86–87. 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, wearing dark suit and vest, standing near staircase visible
  • woman, dark hair, holding a small object, wearing dark coat visible
Seen happening
  • A man is shown standing near a staircase. [frame:1]
  • A woman is shown holding an object and looking upward. [frame:2]
Also said
“Money to buy chocolates and take rides and taxes.” 20:59 · “If you're naughty and idle...” 21:02
Seen
staircase with ornate railing, window with multiple panes, small statue on windowsill, object held by woman (possibly a book or box)
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and disciplinary; themes: class distinction, behavioral conditioning, domestic authority; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, staged interior setting

A man and a woman are shown in separate shots inside a house; the man stands near a staircase and the woman holds an object. The transcript describes conditions for behavior, including sleeping arrangements and consequences for being naughty.

“You shall sleep in a proper bedroom.” 20:55 · “Have lots to eat.” 20:57 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 21:01 (passage 20:55–21:11); US record: No renewal found

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