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Pygmalion · Beat 55 · permalink

Private office

35:34–36:04 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 35:4935:49

Play from 35:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 17 · shots 179–179. 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
  • woman, dark hair in a bun, wearing a dark dress with light trim, medium build visible
  • man, wearing glasses and a dark suit, thin build, speaking visible, audible
Also said
“I swear to God!” 35:53 · “Don't worry. There are plenty more. The shallow repression in the western seas island is likely to move slowly in a more easterly direction. Hampshire?” 35:54
Seen
bookshelves [frame:1], glasses [frame:1], dark suit [frame:1], dark dress with light trim [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and instructional, with a moment of exasperation; themes: language instruction, social class, correction and repetition; style notes: medium two-shot, black-and-white, studio lighting, static framing

A man and a woman are in a room with bookshelves; the man speaks while the woman listens. The transcript includes lines about repeating phrases and weather-related wording, with an exclamation and a correction.

“Now, don't be alarmed. It's just an exercise.” 35:35 · “Now then, repeat slowly after me.” 35:37 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 35:49 (passage 35:34–36:04); US record: No renewal found

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