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Pygmalion · Beat 60 · permalink

Private office

38:34–39:32 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 38:5238:52Frame at 39:1239:12Frame at 39:2339:23

Play from 38:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: cutting rhythm changes. Sequence 18 · shots 197–199. 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
  • Professor Higgins (named at t:38:44): man in dark suit, holding a hat, clean-shaven, mid-adult visible, audible
  • Colonel Pickering (named at t:39:25): man in dark suit, standing with arms crossed, mid-adult visible, audible
  • Mrs. Higgins (named at t:39:05): woman in dark dress with white collar and hat, mid-adult visible, audible
  • woman in patterned dress and hat, mid-adult visible
  • man in light-colored suit, mid-adult visible
Seen happening
  • A woman in a patterned dress shakes hands with another woman. [frame:2]
  • A man points at another man while speaking to a woman. [frame:3]
Also said
“Colonel Pickering?” 39:25 · “What are you doing with my hat?” 39:30
Seen
hat, framed picture on wall, wooden door, couch
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, slightly tense; themes: social class, etiquette, introductions; style notes: medium shots, static camera, studio lighting, formal attire

In a formal interior setting, several characters greet each other, including a woman addressing a man as 'Professor Higgins' and another as 'Colonel Pickering'. A man is seen holding a hat while being questioned about it.

“You're celebrated, son. I've always so longed to meet you, Professor Higgins.” 38:44 · “Sit down. Mother, look here. I'm sorry to say my celebrated son has no manners. You mustn't mind him.” 38:57 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 38:52 (passage 38:34–39:32); US record: No renewal found

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