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Pygmalion · Beat 57 · permalink

Private office

36:31–37:50 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: name not grounded. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 37:0937:09Frame at 37:4837:48

Play from 36:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 18 · shots 183–184. 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
  • Henry (named at t:37:18): man, middle-aged, mustache, dark suit, white shirt, tie, pocket square visible, audible
  • man, middle-aged, light suit, dark tie, thin build visible, audible
  • Henry's mother (named at t:37:18): woman, middle-aged, styled hair, robe with lace, pearls, seated in ornate chair visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand side by side in a room with shelves and a wall sconce. [frame:1]
  • A woman sits in an ornate chair, wearing a robe and pearls, looking forward. [frame:2]
Also said
“You never fall in love with anyone under 45. Oh, I can't waste my time with young women. They're all such idiots anyhow.” 37:36 · “Stop fidgeting.” 37:46
Seen
wall sconce, shelves with jars, ornate chair, robe with lace, pearl necklace
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, slightly tense; themes: social class, parent-child dynamics, romantic expectations; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast studio lighting, formal attire, period decor

Two men in suits stand in a room with shelves and a wall sconce; a woman in a robe and pearls sits in an ornate chair. Dialogue reveals a man named Henry has brought a girl to meet his mother, who questions his motives and comments on his age and romantic habits.

“- Henry. - Hello, dear. What are you doing here today? This is my at-home day.” 37:18 · “Go home at once. But I've just come here on purpose. You see, there, I've picked up a girl. You mean a girl has picked you up? No, no, no. This isn't a love affair.” 37:27 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 37:09 (passage 36:31–37:50); US record: No renewal found

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