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Pygmalion · Beat 73 · permalink

Living room

42:12–42:36 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 42:1342:13Frame at 42:1842:18Frame at 42:2342:23Frame at 42:3242:32

Play from 42:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 223–229. 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, young adult, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and light-colored dress, holding a teacup visible
  • man, young adult, wearing a dark suit and tie, smiling visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Woman holds teacup and looks surprised [frame:1]
  • Man smiles and speaks [frame:2]
  • Man laughs [frame:3]
  • Man and woman face each other; woman still holds teacup [frame:4]
Also said
“What is wrong with that, young man?” 42:20 · “Killing?” 42:23
Seen
teacup and saucer [frame:1], wide-brimmed hat [frame:1], dark suit and tie [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light and conversational, with a hint of surprise or tension; themes: social interaction, class distinction, miscommunication; style notes: medium close-ups, studio lighting, formal attire, static camera

A woman in a wide-brimmed hat holds a teacup while a man in a suit speaks to her; they are indoors. The transcript includes fragmented dialogue with questions and exclamations, including the word 'Killing?' at 42:23.

“Do they?” 42:14 · “Hardly ever, Mr.” 42:14 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 42:13 (passage 42:12–42:36); US record: No renewal found

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