Private office
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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 28:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 13 · shots 129–131. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- Mr. Higgins (named at t:29:07): man with glasses, wearing a collared shirt and jacket, middle-aged, thin build visible, audible
- Eliza's father (named at t:29:07): man with cap and scarf, dark coat, mustache, middle-aged, stocky build visible, audible
- Mrs. Pearce (named at t:29:07): woman with short light hair, wearing a suit and tie, middle-aged visible, audible
- Seen happening
- Mrs. Pearce is present as the father objects to taking Eliza without clothes. [frame:2]
- The father gestures while speaking, insisting he cannot carry Eliza through the streets without clothes. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “I can't take her away, Mr. Higgins. How can he? He told me to burn all her clothes.” 29:13 · “I can't carry the girl through the streets if she's a blooming monkey, can I?” 29:20
- Seen
- bookshelves [frame:1], birdcage [frame:2], staircase [frame:2], portrait on wall [frame:2]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: parental authority, social class, conflict over ownership of a person; style notes: medium shots, static camera, high-contrast lighting, bookshelves and staircase suggest a formal interior setting
A man identified as Eliza's father confronts Mr. Higgins in a room lined with bookshelves, demanding his daughter back after she sent for her luggage. Mrs. Pearce and another man are present as the father objects to taking Eliza away without clothes, citing he was told to burn them.
“How do you know the girl's here if you didn't send her?” 28:36 · “This is Eliza's father. He has come to rescue her from worse than death.” 29:07 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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