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Pygmalion · Beat 78 · permalink

Living room

43:12–43:17 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 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 43:1343:13Frame at 43:1543:15

Play from 43:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 25 · shots 240–241. 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 hair, wearing dark hat and dark dress with lace collar, holding teacup visible
  • man, older, wearing clerical collar and glasses, looking up visible
  • man, younger, wearing suit, tie, and glasses, holding teacup visible
Seen
{'item': 'teacup', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'teacup', 'evidence': 'frame:2'} [frame:2], {'item': 'fireplace', 'evidence': 'frame:2'} [frame:2], {'item': 'dark hat', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, slightly tense; themes: social interaction, class distinction, domestic setting; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, static framing, period costume

A woman in a dark hat and dress holds a teacup while looking surprised. Two men, one in clerical collar and one in suit with glasses, stand holding teacups in a room with a fireplace.

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 43:13 (passage 43:12–43:17); US record: No renewal found

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