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Pygmalion · Beat 86 · permalink

Private office

46:07–46:28 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 46:1046:10Frame at 46:2146:21

Play from 46:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 25 · shots 280–281. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and tie, neat hair, medium build visible, audible
  • Doolittle (named at t:46:14): woman in light dress and large hat, young adult visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, older, balding, visible in background visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit speaks to a woman in a hat. [frame:1]
  • The woman turns toward the man and speaks. [frame:2]
Seen
large hat with flower, dark suit and tie, light-colored dress, wall clock, piano or desk
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal yet tense; themes: class difference, social mobility, gender roles; style notes: medium close-ups, studio lighting, static camera, period costume

A man in a suit speaks to a woman in a light dress and hat inside a well-lit interior space; she replies that she is going in a taxi. Another man is visible in the background.

“Excuse me, Miss Doolittle, but would you be walking across the park? Because if so, I...” 46:14 · “Not bloody likely. I'm going in a taxi.” 46:19 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 46:10 (passage 46:07–46:28); US record: No renewal found

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