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Pygmalion · Beat 54 · permalink

Private office

35:10–35:34 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; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 35:1135:11Frame at 35:1335:13Frame at 35:2335:23Frame at 35:3235:32

Play from 35:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 16 · shots 175–178. 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 suit, tie, neat hair visible, audible
  • Eliza (named at t:35:12): woman, young adult, light-colored hair in curls, wearing a collared shirt with striped tie and headband visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Eliza places a marble in her mouth. [frame:4]
Also said
“Yes, Juan?” 35:31 · “Two.” 35:33
Seen
marble, headband, striped tie
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: focused, instructional; themes: speech training, authority and obedience, transformation through discipline; style notes: static medium close-ups, high-contrast studio lighting, formal framing

A man instructs a woman to place marbles in her mouth as part of a speech exercise. The woman complies, placing one marble in her mouth while the man observes.

“The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plains. The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plains. Now, Eliza, you see these three marbles?” 35:12 · “I want you to put them in your mouth.” 35:30 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 35:11 (passage 35:10–35:34); US record: No renewal found

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