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Pygmalion · Beat 3 · permalink

Street

4:12–4:48 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; 4 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 4:304:30

Play from 4:12 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 3 · shots 2–2. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark coat, medium build, visible in profile visible
  • woman in patterned coat and hat, visible from side visible
  • Freddie (named at t:4:23): man in dark coat, facing p2, visible from front visible, audible
  • woman in dark coat and hat, partially visible behind p2 visible
Also said
“Go again and don't come back until you have found this one. - I just simply get sold for nothing. - What about us, you selfish pig?” 4:29 · “Oh, very well. I'll go. I'll go. - Oh, sorry. - Darling, Freddie, look where you're going, dear. Oh, my Barnard, sod in the lug.” 4:36
Seen
coat [frame:1], hat [frame:1], dark clothing [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and exasperated; themes: class tension, gender roles, urban inconvenience; style notes: medium shot, black-and-white, studio lighting, static framing

A group of people argue on a street at night about finding a taxi; one man is sent to search again while others complain. The scene includes visible tension and a woman addressing a man as 'Freddie'.

“Taxi! You won't get a taxi now.” 4:17 · “There's not a taxi to be had for love or money. You haven't tried at all. Oh you really are helpless Freddie.” 4:23 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 4:30 (passage 4:12–4:48); US record: No renewal found

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