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Pygmalion · Beat 49 · permalink

Private office

32:41–33:37 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; 4 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 32:4332:43Frame at 32:5832:58Frame at 33:0633:06Frame at 33:3133:31

Play from 32:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 14 · shots 155–160. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, middle-aged, wearing a suit and tie, standing visible, audible
  • man, middle-aged, seated, wearing a jacket and shirt, expressive face visible, audible
  • man, middle-aged, wearing a dark coat and striped tie, mustache, smiling visible, audible
  • Eliza (named at t:33:29): woman, young, wearing a dark, ornate dress with a large circular pattern on the back visible
Seen happening
  • A woman enters the room and is recognized as Eliza. [frame:4]
Also said
“Don't you know your own daughter?” 33:29 · “Blimey, it's Eliza!” 33:32
Seen
desk lamp, file cabinet, ornate dress, staircase
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and comedic; themes: class, recognition, money; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal framing

Two men discuss giving money to a third man who claims he will spend it all. A woman in an ornate dress enters and is recognized by one of the men as Eliza. No names are spoken that can be assigned to the visible individuals.

“Shall we give him a fiver?” 32:42 · “Just one good spree for meself and the...” 32:53 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 32:43 (passage 32:41–33:37); US record: No renewal found

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