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Pygmalion · Beat 61 · permalink

Living room

39:32–40:16 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; 7 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 39:4739:47Frame at 40:0340:03Frame at 40:0840:08Frame at 40:1440:14

Play from 39:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 18 · shots 200–203. 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
  • Harold Pickering (named at t:39:32): man in suit and glasses, standing visible, audible
  • woman seated, wearing patterned dress and hat visible
  • man in dark suit, standing behind p2 visible
  • woman seated, wearing dark dress and hat, hands clasped visible
  • man in suit, leaning toward seated woman visible
  • woman in white dress, entering room visible
  • woman in dark dress, carrying white garment, entering room visible
Seen happening
  • A woman in white enters the room. [frame:4]
  • A woman carrying a garment follows her. [frame:4]
Also said
“Yes, this girl regularly fills our lives, doesn't she, Peter? Yes, you're always talking, Eliza. Teaching, Eliza. Dressy, Eliza. She has the most amazingly quick ear you ever heard of. Yes, just like a parrot. My dear Mrs. Heagert, I'm sure you taught her the most genius. She plays the piano broken leg. I've taught her... You're a little...” 39:46 · “- You see?” 40:00
Seen
piano, bookshelves, chandelier, hat, white garment
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: curious and evaluative; themes: social class, transformation, observation; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal composition

In a well-furnished room, several people discuss a girl named Eliza while observing her. A woman in a white dress enters the room, followed by another woman carrying a garment.

“Harold Pickering, I must know. What is the exact position in Wilmphill Street? Is this girl a servant? If not, what is she? Major, Mrs. Rawcroft.” 39:32 · “I really must tell you, the whole thing is extraordinary. It's still, Roger. This is the most absorbing experiment I've ever taken.” 39:40 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 39:47 (passage 39:32–40:16); US record: No renewal found

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