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Pygmalion · Beat 90 · permalink

Private office

48:41–48:51 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 48:4548:45Frame at 48:5048:50

Play from 48:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 27 · shots 289–290. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • woman with short light hair, seen from behind, wearing dark clothing visible
  • man with dark hair, wearing suit and tie, holding flowers, smiling visible
  • man with receding hairline, wearing vest and tie, seated at desk, holding hat, speaking into microphone visible
Also said
“I know.” 48:41 · “is here again.” 48:48
Seen
bouquet of flowers, hat, microphone, desk, framed picture on wall
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: polite and slightly awkward; themes: social interaction, formal address, unspoken recognition; style notes: medium close-ups, studio lighting, formal attire, static camera

A woman speaks to a man holding flowers in an interior setting; another man is visible at a desk with a hat and microphone. No names are spoken that can be assigned to the individuals shown.

“How kind of you to let me come.” 48:41 · “Oh, it's, uh, mister...” 48:41 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 48:45 (passage 48:41–48:51); US record: No renewal found

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