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Pygmalion · Beat 94 · permalink

Ballroom

52:23–52:47 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; 2 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 52:2552:25Frame at 52:3152:31Frame at 52:4152:41Frame at 52:4652:46

Play from 52:23 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 29 · shots 296–300. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ballroom (other, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • Clariceet Carpatti (named at t:52:25): man in black tuxedo with white bow tie, short dark hair, clean-shaven, medium build visible, audible
  • man in formal evening wear with medals, glasses, bow tie, and flower boutonniere, heavier build, receding hairline visible, audible
Also said
“Why the devil don't you cut your hair?” 52:37 · “Oh, if I cut my hair, nobody notices me. I have not your imposing appearance, your chin, your brow. Tell me, what are you doing here among all these swells?” 52:37
Seen
tuxedo [frame:1], bow tie [frame:2], medals [frame:2], candles [frame:3], boutonniere [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: identity, social class, recognition, mentorship; style notes: formal framing, medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting emphasizing facial expressions, period costume detail

Two men in formal evening wear converse in a crowded, candlelit room; one identifies himself as the other's former pupil in phonetics. The setting appears to be a high-society gathering, with background guests and ornate decor.

“You remember me?” 52:23 · “No, I don't. Where have we met? But I'm your pupil, your first pupil, your best and greatest pupil. I've made your name famous throughout Europe. You teach me phonetics. You cannot forget me. I am a clariceet carpatti.” 52:25 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 52:25 (passage 52:23–52:47); US record: No renewal found

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