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Pygmalion · Beat 67 · permalink

Living room

41:10–41:31 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 41:1341:13Frame at 41:2041:20Frame at 41:2741:27

Play from 41:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 22 · shots 209–211. 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
  • woman, light dress, wide-brimmed hat, standing visible
  • Freddy (named at t:41:21): man, dark suit, white pocket square, standing visible, audible
  • man, glasses, suit, holding object visible
  • man, dark suit, standing near fireplace visible
  • man, seated in armchair, dark clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A woman in a hat greets a man in a suit. [frame:1]
  • Two men in suits converse closely. [frame:2]
  • A man hands an object to the woman in the hat. [frame:3]
Also said
“What a good sound is he? My son, Freddy.” 41:21 · “How do you do? I'm sure I've had the pleasure somewhere.” 41:27
Seen
hat, suit, fireplace, armchair, glasses, pocket square, window
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and polite; themes: social introduction, recognition, class distinction; style notes: medium shots and close-ups, studio lighting, period costumes

A woman in a light dress and hat greets a man in a dark suit in a room with furniture and a fireplace; another man introduces his son Freddy. The scene includes a close-up of two men conversing and a man handing an object to the woman.

“I feel sure we've met before, Miss Doolittle.” 41:13 · “I remember your eyes.” 41:16 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 41:13 (passage 41:10–41:31); US record: No renewal found

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