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Pygmalion · Beat 38 · permalink

Living room

26:23–27:05 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; 1 name 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 26:3326:33Frame at 26:4426:44Frame at 26:5926:59Frame at 27:0327:03

Play from 26:23 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 13 · shots 108–114. 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
  • Salazar (named at t:26:44): man, middle-aged, wearing a dark jacket over a light collared shirt, seated at a table visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Salazar gestures while speaking about being called bossy and overbearing. [frame:2]
Also said
“There's a dustman outside, Alfred Doolittle.” 26:48 · “No, no, I mean his dialect.” 27:02
Seen
table [frame:1], curtains [frame:1], framed picture [frame:1], cup [frame:1], bowl [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: conversational, slightly exasperated; themes: misunderstanding, social class, dialect and identity; style notes: medium close-up shots, static camera, studio lighting, black-and-white film

A man seated at a table speaks about being misunderstood and mentions a visitor named Alfred Doolittle. The setting is an interior room with curtains and framed art, and the man gestures while speaking.

“You know, that woman has the most extraordinary ideas about me.” 26:29 · “Yes, she's firmly persuaded that I'm a bossy, arbitrary, overbearing kind of person.” 26:36 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 26:33 (passage 26:23–27:05); US record: No renewal found

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