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Pygmalion · Beat 53 · permalink

Private office

34:50–35:10 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 34:5234:52Frame at 34:5934:59Frame at 35:0735:07Frame at 35:0935:09

Play from 34:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 16 · shots 170–174. 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, middle-aged, dark hair, wearing suit and tie visible
  • woman, young, dark hair, in bed with white linens visible
  • man, middle-aged, dark hair, wearing suit and tie visible
  • woman, young, blonde hair, wearing collared shirt and tie visible
Seen happening
  • A man points at a diagram with a pointer. [frame:1]
  • A woman is shown sleeping in bed. [frame:2]
  • A man speaks with an open mouth. [frame:3]
  • A woman looks forward with a neutral expression. [frame:4]
Also said
“Dream in space.” 35:08
Seen
diagram with phonetic symbols, pointer, bed with white linens
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: academic and instructional; themes: language instruction, observation and correction, contrast between rest and active learning; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal attire

A man points at a diagram while speaking; a woman is shown sleeping, then awake and listening. The transcript includes fragmented phrases about pronunciation and weather. No named characters or specific location are established from the frames or lines.

“Hey.” 35:02 · “The rain in Spain.” 35:05 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 34:52 (passage 34:50–35:10); US record: No renewal found

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