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Pygmalion · Beat 7 · permalink

Street

6:54–7:25 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 6:596:59Frame at 7:077:07Frame at 7:187:18Frame at 7:227:22

Play from 6:54 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 13–17. 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
  • man in dark suit, bowler hat, white pocket square, mustache visible, audible
  • woman in dark coat and hat, holding a large hat visible
  • man in flat cap, light coat, holding a paper visible, audible
  • man in vest behind counter, visible in background visible
  • woman with dark hat and scarf, looking toward p3 visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit is surrounded by a crowd on a street. [frame:1]
  • The man in the suit looks upward while speaking. [frame:2]
  • A man in a flat cap speaks while holding a paper, with another man behind a counter in the background. [frame:3]
  • The man in the flat cap smiles while a woman looks at him. [frame:4]
Also said
“He's a gentleman.” 7:22 · “Look at his boots.” 7:23
Seen
bowler hat [frame:1], flat cap [frame:3], paper [frame:3], counter [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but conversational; themes: class distinction, public perception, social roles; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static framing

A man in a suit and bowler hat is surrounded by a crowd on a street; another man in a flat cap speaks while a woman looks on. The transcript includes dialogue about protecting someone and identifying a gentleman by his boots.

“I'm making a gentleman. - Charge, I make no charge. Really, so you'll even start protecting me from molestation until I ask you.” 7:02 · “He ain't a copper.” 7:21 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 6:59 (passage 6:54–7:25); US record: No renewal found

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