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Pygmalion · Beat 77 · permalink

Living room

42:50–43:12 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; 3 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 42:5142:51Frame at 42:5942:59Frame at 43:0543:05Frame at 43:1243:12

Play from 42:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 25 · shots 234–239. 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
  • man, dark suit, tie, round glasses, holding pipe visible, audible
  • woman, light dress, wide-brimmed hat, holding teacup visible
  • woman, dark dress, small hat with feather, holding teacup visible
Seen happening
  • Two women and a man stand holding teacups in a room. [frame:1]
  • The woman in the dark dress looks toward the other woman. [frame:2]
  • The man in glasses speaks while holding a pipe. [frame:3]
  • The man continues speaking, pipe in hand. [frame:4]
Also said
“She'll be safe.” 43:06 · “As Halloween.” 43:09
Seen
teacup [frame:1], pipe [frame:3], wide-brimmed hat [frame:1], feathered hat [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and conversational; themes: social interaction, health concern, seasonal reference; style notes: medium close-ups, studio lighting, period costumes, static framing

Two women and a man are shown in a room, holding teacups; the man speaks while holding a pipe. The transcript includes fragmented dialogue about influenza and Halloween, with no clear name given for any person.

“so much influenza about, it runs right through our family every spring. My aunt” 42:57 · “Died of influenza?” 43:03 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 42:51 (passage 42:50–43:12); US record: No renewal found

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