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Pygmalion · Beat 56 · permalink

Private office

36:04–36:31 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; 2 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 36:0736:07Frame at 36:1336:13Frame at 36:2436:24

Play from 36:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 18 · shots 180–182. 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, light hair styled up, wearing a dark cardigan with white stripes over a white collared shirt and dark tie visible, audible
  • man, dark hair, wearing a dark jacket over a patterned shirt visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man reacts to the woman's speech. [frame:2]
Also said
“Hurricanes hardly ever happen.” 36:15 · “In Hampshire, Hereford, Hartford, Hurricanes.” 36:18
Seen
cardigan with white stripes, dark tie, patterned shirt
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: focused and instructional; themes: language instruction, social class, performance; style notes: static medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, studio-bound composition

A woman and a man are in a room; the woman speaks lines about Hampshire and hurricanes while the man listens. The transcript includes dialogue about pronunciation and a correction.

“- Oh, dummy chumps. - So it will Eliza, every time you say "correctly."” 36:08 · “In Hampshire, Hereford and Harford,” 36:13 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 36:07 (passage 36:04–36:31); US record: No renewal found

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