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Pygmalion · Beat 46 · permalink

Private office

31:22–31:51 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 31:2631:26Frame at 31:3131:31Frame at 31:4331:43Frame at 31:5031:50

Play from 31:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 14 · shots 145–149. 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
  • man wearing a dark cap, coat, and scarf; middle-aged, thin face, expressive visible, audible
  • man wearing round glasses, collared shirt, and jacket; seated at a desk, listening visible
  • person in dark clothing, partially visible in background, standing visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cap stands before a seated man at a desk, speaking. [frame:1]
  • The man in the cap leans forward, speaking with intensity. [frame:2]
  • The man in the cap continues speaking, looking slightly to his right. [frame:3]
  • The seated man in glasses reacts with surprise or concern. [frame:4]
Also said
“You're undeserving it.” 31:40 · “And yet my needs is as great as the most deserving winners.” 31:43
Seen
desk [frame:1], newspaper [frame:1], cap [frame:1], glasses [frame:4], curtains [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and pleading; themes: social class, poverty and charity, moral judgment; style notes: medium close-ups on the speaker's face, static camera, high-contrast lighting emphasizing facial expressions

A man in a cap and coat speaks passionately to another man in glasses seated at a desk; a third person is visible in the background. The speaker complains about being labeled 'undeserving' and denied aid despite having great needs.

“I'm one of the undeserving poor.” 31:23 · “It means he's up against middle-class morality all the time.” 31:29 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 31:26 (passage 31:22–31:51); US record: No renewal found

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