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Pygmalion · Beat 89 · permalink

Private office

47:57–48:41 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 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 48:1348:13Frame at 48:3248:32Frame at 48:3548:35Frame at 48:3848:38

Play from 47:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 27 · shots 285–288. 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
  • Eliza (named at t:48:26): woman, light hair, wearing a light blouse with dark collar and cuffs visible, audible
  • man, wearing glasses, dark suit, smoking pipe, standing near doorway visible
  • man, wearing vest and tie, seated at gramophone, appears to be instructing visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman gestures toward a man standing in a doorway. [frame:1]
  • A man seated at a gramophone looks up and speaks. [frame:2]
  • A woman speaks with mouth open, mid-sentence. [frame:3]
  • The seated man looks down at the gramophone. [frame:4]
Also said
“Say it. How kind of you to let me come.” 48:34 · “He's here again. Oh, throw him out, throw him out.” 48:15
Seen
gramophone [frame:2], pipe [frame:1], staircase [frame:1], doorway [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and instructional; themes: instruction, social class, performance; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, static framing, studio lighting

A man in a suit and a woman in a blouse are in a room with a gramophone; the woman speaks while the man listens and reacts. The transcript includes lines spoken by characters, including one addressed to 'Eliza' and another saying 'How kind of you to let me come.'

“Now listen carefully, Eliza.” 48:26 · “How kind of you to let me come.” 48:28 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 48:13 (passage 47:57–48:41); US record: No renewal found

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