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Pygmalion · Beat 37 · permalink

Living room

25:35–26:23 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; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 25:5925:59

Play from 25:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 13 · shots 107–107. 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
  • man seated, wearing dark robe or dressing gown, light hair, mid-adult visible, audible
  • Mrs. Pierce (named at t:26:03): woman standing, wearing light-colored dress or uniform, light hair, mid-adult visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man rubs his eye while seated at a table as Mrs. Pierce stands beside him holding a tray. [frame:1]
Also said
“I hope you're not offended, sir. No, not at all. Not at all, Mrs. Pierce.” 26:03 · “I really don't think I can put the girl back into these. Might she wear one of those Chinese garments you brought back from abroad?” 26:10
Seen
tray, framed picture, curtains, table
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and slightly tense, with undertones of domestic friction; themes: domestic hierarchy, class and manners, personal space and propriety; style notes: static medium shot, studio lighting, period costume, interior set with decorative elements

A man seated at a table speaks with a woman standing beside him who holds a tray; she lists household rules while he reacts. The setting appears to be a private dining or living area with framed art and curtains visible.

“Only this morning, sir, you applied it to the boots.” 25:35 · “No, sir. You have to be very particular of this girl as to her personal cleanliness. Yes, certainly, certainly. Most important.” 25:44 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 25:59 (passage 25:35–26:23); US record: No renewal found

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