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Pygmalion · Beat 79 · permalink

Living room

43:17–43:37 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 43:1843:18Frame at 43:2343:23Frame at 43:3343:33Frame at 43:3743:37

Play from 43:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 25 · shots 242–246. 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:4
People
  • older woman, curly hair, dark hat with veil, dark jacket, white ruffled collar, holding teacup visible
  • younger woman, dark hair, wide-brimmed light hat, light dress, pearl necklace visible
  • man, glasses, dark suit, holding teacup visible
  • man, dark suit, white pocket square, holding teacup visible
Seen happening
  • A woman holds a teacup and speaks. [frame:1]
  • A young woman speaks with her mouth open. [frame:2]
  • A young woman looks surprised or attentive. [frame:3]
  • Two men and a woman stand together holding teacups near a fireplace. [frame:4]
Also said
“When she come through dicteria right enough the year before.” 43:24 · “- Pairly? - Blue? With it, she was.” 43:34
Seen
teacup [frame:1], wide-brimmed hat [frame:2], fireplace [frame:4], decorative plates [frame:4], teapot [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: conversational, slightly tense; themes: social class, health and mortality, gossip; style notes: medium close-ups and group shots, studio lighting, formal attire, static camera

Two women and two men are in a room, one woman holding a teacup; dialogue discusses someone's death from influenza and a prior illness. The setting appears to be a domestic interior with a fireplace and decorative plates.

“- Have you done her in? - Yes.” 43:18 · “Why should she die of influenza?” 43:22 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 43:18 (passage 43:17–43:37); US record: No renewal found

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