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Pygmalion · Beat 87 · permalink

Private office

46:28–46:40 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 46:3446:34

Play from 46:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 26 · shots 282–282. 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
  • woman, light hair, wearing a dark hat with feathers and a formal dark jacket with a white collar visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman speaks with a resigned expression, saying 'Oh, it's no use.' [frame:1]
Also said
“That's right.” 46:39
Seen
dark feathered hat, formal dark jacket with white collar
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: resigned, tense; themes: social constraint, personal struggle, class performance; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal costume design

A woman in a dark hat and formal attire is shown in a close-up, speaking with a resigned expression. The transcript indicates she is expressing inability to bring herself to do something, followed by an affirmation from another speaker.

“Oh, it's no use.” 46:34 · “I shall never be able to bring myself to use” 46:36 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 46:34 (passage 46:28–46:40); US record: No renewal found

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