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Pygmalion · Beat 83 · permalink

Living room

45:14–45:34 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; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 45:1645:16Frame at 45:2245:22Frame at 45:2645:26Frame at 45:3345:33

Play from 45:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 25 · shots 270–275. 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 in dark suit and tie, smiling, mid-adult visible, audible
  • woman in light dress and wide-brimmed hat, holding teacup, mid-adult visible, audible
  • older woman with dark hair, seated, mid- to late-adult visible
Seen happening
  • The woman with the teacup looks away, appearing unimpressed. [frame:2]
  • The woman with the teacup speaks, mouth open. [frame:3]
  • The man gestures with his hand while speaking to the seated older woman. [frame:4]
Also said
“at.” 45:28 · “There are another things.” 45:31
Seen
teacup and saucer [frame:1], wide-brimmed hat [frame:1], decorative plates on mantelpiece [frame:4], clock on mantelpiece [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light and conversational, with a hint of tension; themes: social class, language and performance, gender roles; style notes: medium close-ups, static camera, studio lighting, formal attire suggests upper-class setting

A man and a woman are in a room; the man speaks and gestures while the woman holds a teacup and reacts. Another woman appears briefly in the final frame, seated and looking up at the man.

“What are you sniggering at? The new slang. You do it so awfully well. If I was doing it proper...” 45:19 · “What was you?” 45:26 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 45:16 (passage 45:14–45:34); US record: No renewal found

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