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Pygmalion · Beat 52 · permalink

Private office

34:28–34:50 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 34:3834:38Frame at 34:4934:49

Play from 34:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 16 · shots 168–169. 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
  • woman, light hair in a bun, wearing academic robes with stripes and a tie visible
Seen happening
  • A woman in academic robes reacts with surprise. [frame:2]
  • A record player is shown spinning. [frame:1]
Seen
record player [frame:1], academic robes [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: surprised or startled; themes: academic setting, unexpected interruption; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, black and white film

A woman in academic robes appears in a dimly lit interior, reacting to something off-screen. A record player is visible in a separate shot. No names or specific events are established beyond the spoken line.

“Hello! Ah. Ah, like father.” 34:44 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 34:38 (passage 34:28–34:50); US record: No renewal found

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