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Pygmalion · Beat 42 · permalink

Private office

29:29–29:53 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 29:4129:41

Play from 29:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 13 · shots 132–132. 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
  • Doolittle (named at t:29:41): man with mustache, wearing a hat, bow tie, and dark coat visible, audible
  • Governor (named at t:29:31): man with glasses, wearing a light collared shirt under a dark jacket, holding papers visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Doolittle addresses the Governor, claiming they are both men of the world. [frame:1]
Mentioned
  • The Governor is told to leave by Doolittle, and Pearce is mentioned as having departed. [t:29:37]
Also said
“I've taken a sort of fancy to you.” 29:47 · “And if you want the girl...” 29:52
Seen
hat, bow tie, glasses, papers
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and transactional; themes: class negotiation, personal appeal, male authority; style notes: medium two-shot, high-contrast lighting, static framing, period costume

Two men converse in a dimly lit interior; one, wearing a hat and bow tie, speaks while the other, in glasses and holding papers, listens. The dialogue suggests a negotiation or personal appeal involving a third party, a girl.

“Listen, Governor.” 29:31 · “The floor is yours, Doolittle.” 29:41 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 29:41 (passage 29:29–29:53); US record: No renewal found

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