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Pygmalion · Beat 6 · permalink

Street

6:35–6:54 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 6:396:39Frame at 6:466:46Frame at 6:526:52

Play from 6:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 3 · shots 10–12. 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
  • woman, dark curly hair, wearing a hat and dark coat, appears young and distressed visible, audible
  • man, wearing a fedora and overcoat, holding a note, appears middle-aged visible, audible
  • man, wearing a flat cap and coat, standing behind p1, observing visible
  • man, wearing a bow tie and dark coat, standing behind p1, observing visible
Seen happening
  • A woman reacts with surprise to something unseen. [frame:1]
  • A man reads a note and appears to comment on its writing. [frame:2]
  • The woman pleads emotionally, clutching her chest. [frame:3]
Also said
“I'll wait.” 6:49 · “Oh, sir. Oh, don't let him charge me. Oh, you don't know what it means to me. They'll take away my character and they'll drive me on the streets.” 6:54
Seen
note [frame:2], hat [frame:1], fedora [frame:2], flat cap [frame:1], bow tie [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and pleading; themes: social class, public shame, gender and authority; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting emphasizing facial expressions

A woman pleads with a man in a crowd after he reads a note; another man observes. The woman is distressed about being charged, fearing loss of character and being driven to the streets.

“What? What's that?” 6:36 · “I can't read that.” 6:41 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 6:39 (passage 6:35–6:54); US record: No renewal found

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