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Pygmalion · Beat 43 · permalink

Private office

29:53–30:27 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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 30:1030:10

Play from 29:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 14 · shots 133–133. 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
  • Eliza's father (named at t:30:06): man wearing a cap and scarf, mustache, mid-adult, medium build visible, audible
Also said
“All I ask from you is my rights as a father.” 30:06 · “And what's Eliza?” 30:22
Seen
cap, scarf, coat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: confrontational; themes: parental rights, class negotiation, value of personhood; style notes: medium close-up, high-contrast lighting, static framing, period costume

A man in a cap and scarf speaks in a dimly lit interior, referencing Eliza and demanding his rights as a father. The transcript includes lines about her worth and a five-pound note, suggesting a negotiation or confrontation.

“I'm not so certain having them back home.” 29:54 · “As a daughter, she ain't worth a keeper, I tell you straight.” 30:03 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 30:10 (passage 29:53–30:27); US record: No renewal found

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