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Pygmalion · Beat 44 · permalink

Private office

30:27–30:53 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; 3 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 30:2930:29Frame at 30:3330:33Frame at 30:4430:44Frame at 30:5030:50

Play from 30:27 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 134–138. 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
  • Mr. Doolittle (named at t:30:27): man with dark coat, bow tie, and headband; thick mustache; middle-aged; stocky build visible, audible
  • man with glasses, light-colored shirt, dark jacket; thin build; middle-aged visible, audible
  • man with glasses, seated, reading newspaper; wearing dark suit visible
Also said
“But to oblige a gentleman like you, I'd do a good deal, I'd wish for you.” 30:44 · “I can't afford them, Governor.” 30:50
Seen
bookshelf [frame:1], newspaper [frame:1], glasses [frame:4], headband [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: class and morality, transactional relationships, social hypocrisy; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast studio lighting, formal framing with characters positioned to emphasize dialogue

Three men are in a room with bookshelves; one reads a newspaper while the other two speak. The dialogue concerns a man named Mr. Doolittle and his willingness to accept money for his daughter, which another character condemns as immoral.

“I think you ought to know, Mr. Doolittle, that Mr. Higgins' intentions are entirely honourable.” 30:27 · “If I thought they wasn't, I'd ask 50.” 30:34 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 30:29 (passage 30:27–30:53); US record: No renewal found

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