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Pygmalion · Beat 88 · permalink

Private office

46:40–47:57 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; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 47:0847:08Frame at 47:4647:46

Play from 46:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 27 · shots 283–284. 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
  • Higgins (named at t:47:06): man in dark suit, balding, holding a pipe visible, audible
  • Eliza (named at t:47:17): woman in light dress, dark hair, visible in profile visible, audible
  • Freddy Hill (named at t:47:49): man in dark suit, partially visible audible, mentioned
Seen happening
  • A man stands near a staircase while a woman leans over a desk. [frame:1]
  • A man with a pipe speaks closely to a woman’s face. [frame:2]
Also said
“I tell you, Pick that girl can do anything.” 47:14 · “No, no, no. I told you 500 times. You drive me mad, girl.” 47:39
Seen
pipe, staircase, desk, invitation
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: class and transformation, authority and resistance, gender roles in education; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, close framing on faces to emphasize emotional intensity

A man and a woman are in a room with a staircase; the man speaks forcefully to the woman, who appears distressed. The transcript includes dialogue about an invitation to the Trans-Slyvanian Embassy and a demand for the woman to work again.

“that I was ashamed. You ought never to have done it.” 46:52 · “And pass her over to the Duchess I will. Here.” 47:06 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 47:08 (passage 46:40–47:57); US record: No renewal found

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