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Pygmalion · Beat 65 · permalink

Private office

40:27–40:57 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 40:4240:42

Play from 40:27 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 21 · shots 207–207. 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:40:39): man, older, wearing a patterned robe, visible in frame:1 visible, audible
  • Miss Doolittle (named at t:40:53): woman, young, wearing a light dress and hat, visible in frame:1 visible, audible
Also said
“Quite right, my dear. I'm delighted to see you.” 40:42 · “How do you do, Miss Doolett?” 40:53
Seen
telephone [frame:1], shelves with glassware [frame:1], robe [frame:1], hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and polite; themes: social class, introduction, formal address; style notes: medium shot, static framing, studio lighting, period costume

A woman in a light dress and hat greets a man in a robe in a room with shelves and a telephone; the man identifies himself as Professor Higgins and mentions Colonel Pickering. The transcript includes greetings and a reference to Miss Doolittle.

“How do you do, Mrs.” 40:36 · “Professor Higgins.” 40:39 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 40:42 (passage 40:27–40:57); US record: No renewal found

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