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Pygmalion · Beat 81 · permalink

Living room

44:25–44:48 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 44:2844:28Frame at 44:3544:35Frame at 44:4244:42Frame at 44:4544:45

Play from 44:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 25 · shots 258–262. 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, mid-20s, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and light dress, holding a teacup visible, audible
  • older woman, wearing a dark hat with feathers and a high-necked dress with a choker visible
  • older man, wearing glasses and a dark clerical collar visible
Seen happening
  • A woman in a wide-brimmed hat holds a teacup and speaks. [frame:1]
  • An older woman in a dark hat reacts with surprise. [frame:2]
  • A man in clerical collar looks on with a serious expression. [frame:3]
  • The woman in the wide-brimmed hat continues speaking with an animated expression. [frame:4]
Also said
“Gin was mother's milk to her. Besides,” 44:39 · “He poured so much down his own throat that he knew the good of it.” 44:43
Seen
teacup [frame:1], wide-brimmed hat [frame:1], dark feathered hat [frame:2], clerical collar [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: family conflict, alcoholism, social class; style notes: medium close-ups, static framing, high-contrast studio lighting

A woman in a wide-brimmed hat speaks while holding a teacup; another woman in a dark hat and a man in clerical collar react. The dialogue discusses alcohol consumption and its effects on a mother.

“Do I not?” 44:25 · “would have killed her for a hat pin. Let alone a hat. But it couldn't have been right for your father to have, to have poured spirits down her throat like that. Now that might have killed her, not her.” 44:29 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 44:28 (passage 44:25–44:48); US record: No renewal found

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