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Pygmalion · Beat 4 · permalink

Street

4:48–5:31 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 4:494:49Frame at 4:554:55Frame at 5:175:17Frame at 5:305:30

Play from 4:48 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 3–7. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • woman with styled hair, wearing dark dress and holding a handkerchief visible
  • man with light hair, wearing formal coat and high collar visible
  • man in hat and coat, crouched over a box, possibly a beggar visible
  • man in fedora and suit, counting money visible
Seen happening
  • A woman and a man in formal attire are shown in conversation. [frame:1]
  • A man in a hat and coat is seen crouched over a box on the street. [frame:2]
  • A person with dark hair and a coat is shown in a dimly lit setting. [frame:3]
  • A man in a fedora counts money while seated at a counter. [frame:4]
Also said
“Sixpence for you.” 5:12 · “Thank you kindly, lady.” 5:14
Seen
handkerchief, formal coat, box, fedora, money, counter
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: social class, deception, parental duty; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, street-level framing, dim lighting in some shots

A woman and a man in formal attire are shown in conversation, followed by a street scene with a beggar and a man counting money. The dialogue suggests a discussion about a young man named Freddy and a transaction involving sixpence.

“How do you know that my son's name is Freddy?” 4:58 · “Oh, he's your son, is he? Well, if you've done your duty,” 5:01 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 4:49 (passage 4:48–5:31); US record: No renewal found

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