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Pygmalion · Beat 80 · permalink

Living room

43:37–44:25 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; 6 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 43:4043:40Frame at 43:5743:57Frame at 44:1044:10Frame at 44:2244:22

Play from 43:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 25 · shots 247–257. 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:3
People
  • woman, mid-20s to 30s, wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat and light dress, pearl necklace visible, audible
  • older man, glasses, clerical collar, dark robe visible, audible
  • older woman, curly hair, dark hat, high-necked dress visible
  • man, mid-30s, suit, holding teacup visible
  • man, mid-30s, suit, holding teacup, standing behind seated woman visible
  • man, older, balding, leaning over p3 visible
Seen happening
  • The woman in the straw hat is shown reacting with open mouth. [frame:1]
  • The man in clerical collar smiles and gestures while speaking. [frame:2]
  • A group sits around a tea service; one man holds a teacup, another stands behind a seated woman. [frame:3]
  • An older man leans toward the woman in the dark hat while she holds a teacup. [frame:4]
Also said
“that should have come to me.” 44:01 · “done her in?” 44:14
Seen
straw hat, clerical collar, tea service with silver pot, teacups, dark hat with feather
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted with undertones of mystery; themes: misunderstanding, social class, recovery from illness, property and inheritance; style notes: medium close-ups and group shots; high-contrast black-and-white lighting; formal attire suggests upper-class setting

A woman in a straw hat speaks with surprise while a man in clerical collar reacts; later, a group gathers around a tea service as another man leans in to speak. The dialogue references a woman who was thought dead but revived, and a missing straw hat.

“They all thought she was dead.” 43:37 · “He kept ladling gin down her throat till she come to so sudden that she bit the bowl of the spoon. Dear me!” 43:41 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 43:40 (passage 43:37–44:25); US record: No renewal found

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