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Pygmalion · Beat 5 · permalink

Street

5:31–6:35 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; 6 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 5:585:58Frame at 6:306:30

Play from 5:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 3 · shots 8–9. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(street, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • woman wearing a large straw hat, visible in profile visible, audible
  • man in bowler hat, partially visible, standing near p1 visible
  • man in hat, visible behind p1, possibly holding something visible
  • Doctor (named at t:5:39): unspecified person, audible only audible
  • Wilson (named at t:5:43): unspecified person, audible only audible
  • Dr. Chappleton (named at t:5:49): unspecified person, audible only audible
Seen happening
  • The woman is visible in profile, wearing a straw hat, looking to her right. [frame:2]
Also said
“But I ain't done nothing wrong by speaking as a gentleman. I'm a good girl, I am, self-made. What's your in about? But I never spoke to him except to ask him to buy a flyer off me. What's a good old class, him?” 6:07 · “What do you want to take down what I said for?” 6:26
Seen
straw hat, bowler hat, hat (unspecified)
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: class, public scrutiny, female agency; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, high contrast lighting, period costume

A woman in a straw hat is seen in profile, speaking to someone off-screen while surrounded by men in hats in what appears to be a public space. The transcript includes her defending herself against being written down, claiming she is a 'good girl' and 'self-made', while others mention a doctor and a flower sale.

“Come on, buy a flower for poor girl. I'm sorry I haven't did a change. John, Captain.” 5:45 · “I can change your offer, Crown. - Hello, Dr. Chappleton. There's a good one. I haven't any change, really. Here's some Chappleton's. Is that to me? Next. - I think he can.” 5:49 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 5:58 (passage 5:31–6:35); US record: No renewal found

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