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Pygmalion · Beat 47 · permalink

Private office

31:51–32:10 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; 2 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 31:5531:55Frame at 32:0132:01Frame at 32:0632:06

Play from 31:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 14 · shots 150–152. 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:2
People
  • Doolittle (named at t:32:08): man wearing a dark cap, coat, and scarf; middle-aged, mustache, expressive face visible, audible
  • man wearing glasses, dark jacket, light shirt; seated, thin build, serious expression visible, audible
Also said
“I ain't pretending to be deserving, I'm undeserving.” 32:05 · “I mean to go home, I mean to serve in the likes. Sit down, Doolittle.” 32:08
Seen
cap [frame:1], coat [frame:1], glasses [frame:2], piano [frame:2], scarf [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: confrontational and candid; themes: class, honesty, self-perception; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static camera, period costume

A man in a cap and coat speaks assertively while another man in glasses listens; the transcript includes dialogue about deservingness and drinking. The setting appears to be an interior room with furniture and a piano visible.

“I don't need less than the deserving men. I need more.” 31:51 · “And I drink a lot more. So I put the two gentlemen down. Don't play that game on me.” 31:57 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 31:55 (passage 31:51–32:10); US record: No renewal found

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