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Pygmalion · Beat 58 · permalink

Private office

37:50–38:15 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 37:5237:52Frame at 37:5537:55Frame at 38:0738:07Frame at 38:1238:12

Play from 37:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 18 · shots 185–189. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, mid-30s, slim build, wearing a dark suit with vest and tie, neat hair visible, audible
  • woman, 40s-50s, medium build, wearing a light patterned dress with lace collar, styled hair visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man stands near a small table holding a framed photo. [frame:1]
  • The woman sits in an ornate armchair, speaking. [frame:2]
  • The woman continues speaking, looking slightly surprised. [frame:3]
  • The man leans back in a chair, relaxed. [frame:4]
Also said
“Look here, she's coming to see you this afternoon. Really? I don't remember asking her. Oh, you didn't and you wouldn't have if you'd known her. Indeed. Why?” 37:57 · “She's just a common flower girl. I picked her up in Covent Garden.” 38:05
Seen
framed photo [frame:1], ornate armchair [frame:2], small table [frame:1], candlestick-style lamp [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and conversational; themes: class, language, social performance; style notes: static medium shots, studio lighting, ornate set design, formal attire

A man in a suit and a woman in a patterned dress are in a room with ornate furniture; the man speaks about having taught a flower girl to speak properly. The woman reacts while seated, and the man later leans back in a chair.

“You'll break it.” 37:52 · “Come and tell me about the girl.” 37:54 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 37:52 (passage 37:50–38:15); US record: No renewal found

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