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Pygmalion · Beat 95 · permalink

Hotel lobby

52:47–54:08 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 52:5852:58Frame at 53:2753:27Frame at 53:5753:57Frame at 54:0654:06

Play from 52:47 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 301–305. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
hotel_lobby (hotel lobby, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • man in formal evening wear with bow tie and boutonniere, middle-aged, medium build visible, audible
  • man in formal evening wear, younger, standing behind p1 visible
  • woman in long white evening gown, dark hair styled up, slender visible
  • man in formal evening wear, standing at balcony railing visible
  • man in formal evening wear, seen from back visible
Seen happening
  • A woman in an evening gown descends a grand staircase. [frame:2]
  • A man in formal wear stands at a balcony railing observing. [frame:4]
Also said
“Come on in.” 53:45 · “- Dear, Excellency. - Darling, I'm so glad to see you here.” 53:47
Seen
evening gown, formal evening wear, balcony railing with ornate metalwork, columns and classical architecture
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, tense; themes: social class, performance, formality, observation; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, classical architecture framing, formal attire emphasizing social hierarchy

A man in formal attire speaks about his ability to identify social class by accent while another man is summoned upstairs; a woman in an evening gown descends a grand staircase as others observe. The setting is an opulent interior with classical architecture and formal dress.

“I am indispensable at these international parties. You can place a man anywhere in London the moment he opens his mouth.” 52:47 · “Excuse me, sir. I want you upstairs.” 52:55 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 52:58 (passage 52:47–54:08); US record: No renewal found

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