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Pygmalion · Beat 92 · permalink

Private office

50:25–50:46 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 50:3450:34Frame at 50:4550:45

Play from 50:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 27 · shots 293–294. 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, mid-20s to 30s, light-colored blouse, dark hair styled in waves visible, audible
  • Higgins (named at t:50:44): man, 40s to 50s, dark suit, white shirt, dark tie, mustache, wearing dark glasses, reclining visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man is seen reclining with dark glasses, appearing unwell. [frame:1]
  • The man is shown lying back, eyes closed, in discomfort. [frame:2]
Also said
“Come, Higgins, be reasonable.” 50:44
Seen
desk lamp, dark glasses, suit jacket
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and exasperated; themes: conflict between duty and discomfort, interpersonal pressure; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast lighting, static camera, black-and-white film

A man and a woman are in a room; the man appears to be in discomfort while the woman speaks to him. The dialogue suggests they are restarting a task, and the man is being urged to continue despite a headache.

“We'll now start the whole thing over from the beginning. No, I can't. I can't.” 50:25 · “Look here, if I can do it with a splitting headache, you can do it.” 50:25 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 50:34 (passage 50:25–50:46); US record: No renewal found

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