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Pygmalion · Beat 30 · permalink

Bathroom

21:52–22:46 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; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 21:5821:58Frame at 22:3022:30Frame at 22:3522:35Frame at 22:4522:45

Play from 21:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 9 · shots 91–96. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(bathroom, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • Eliza (named at t:22:07): young woman with curly hair, wearing a dark dress or blouse visible, audible
  • older man with glasses and a beard, wearing a suit visible, audible
  • older woman in a light-colored apron or maid's uniform visible
Seen happening
  • Eliza looks distressed and reluctant as she is told to undress. [frame:4]
Also said
“Now, wait to your room and take off all the clothes.” 22:21 · “Oh, Eliza, I'll be a good child. No! No! No! No!” 22:32
Seen
bathroom sink and mirror [frame:3], basin and towel [frame:3], door frame [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: class conflict, forced transformation, female agency vs. male authority; style notes: close-ups on faces to emphasize emotion; static camera in medium shots for dialogue; high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s studio films

A woman argues with a man about her living conditions and hygiene, then is instructed to undress in a bathroom by another woman. The scene ends with the first woman looking distressed.

“You're a great bully, you are. I won't stay here if I don't like it.” 21:53 · “I shall make a duchess of this jaggle-tailed guttersnug.” 22:07 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 21:58 (passage 21:52–22:46); US record: No renewal found

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