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Pygmalion · Beat 59 · permalink

Living room

38:15–38:34 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; 3 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 38:1638:16Frame at 38:2238:22Frame at 38:2838:28Frame at 38:3438:34

Play from 38:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 18 · shots 190–196. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Mrs. Ainsford Hill (named at t:38:30): woman, light hair styled up, wearing a lace-trimmed blouse and dark jacket, seated in an armchair visible, audible
  • man, dark hair, wearing a dark suit and tie, seated at a table visible, audible
  • Mr. Ainsford Hill (named at t:38:30): man, dark hair, wearing a dark coat and holding a hat, standing and entering the scene visible
Seen happening
  • A woman sits in an armchair and speaks. [frame:1]
  • The woman continues speaking, looking slightly to her right. [frame:2]
  • A man in a suit speaks to the woman across a table. [frame:3]
  • A third man enters, holding a hat, and reacts with wide eyes. [frame:4]
Also said
“But you've got to consider not only how the girl pronounces, but what she pronounces.” 38:27 · “Mrs. and Miss Ainsford Hill, Mr. Ainsford Hill. Oh, heaven.” 38:30
Seen
armchair, table with tea service, hat, fireplace
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and socially charged; themes: social class, language and identity, performance of manners; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast studio lighting, formal composition

A woman in a lace-trimmed blouse sits in an armchair while a man in a suit speaks to her across a table; a third man in a dark coat and hat enters and reacts with surprise. The dialogue concerns pronunciation and social presentation, referencing 'Mrs. and Miss Ainsford Hill'.

“- Oh, that's a blessing anyway. - Well, um, it is.” 38:16 · “I've got her pronunciation all right.” 38:25 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 38:16 (passage 38:15–38:34); US record: No renewal found

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