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Pygmalion · Beat 29 · permalink

Private office

21:28–21:52 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 21:4121:41

Play from 21:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 9 · shots 90–90. 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 tie, light hair, medium build visible, audible
  • Mrs. Pierce (named at t:21:48): woman, dark hair, wearing dark dress or coat, medium build visible, audible
Also said
“You will be a most ungrateful and wicked girl.” 21:38 · “Can I put it more fairly, Mrs. Pierce?” 21:48
Seen
small rectangular object (possibly a card or envelope), framed circular artworks on wall
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and transactional; themes: social class, negotiation, gender roles; style notes: medium two-shot, static framing, studio lighting, formal attire

A man and a woman stand in an interior room; the man speaks while holding a small object, and the woman listens. The transcript includes dialogue about an offer, a threat of being ungrateful, and a reference to angels, followed by questions directed at Pickering and Mrs. Pierce.

“Bucks.” 21:29 · “You will receive a present of seven and sixpence” 21:31 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 21:41 (passage 21:28–21:52); US record: No renewal found

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