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Pygmalion · Beat 8 · permalink

Bar

7:25–8:00 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; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 7:307:30Frame at 7:437:43Frame at 7:527:52Frame at 7:577:57

Play from 7:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 3 · shots 18–21. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a flat cap and apron, older, stocky build visible
  • man wearing a dark hat and suit, younger, thin build visible
  • woman wearing a wide-brimmed hat, curly hair, young adult visible, audible
  • man in background wearing vest and bow tie, possibly bartender visible
Seen happening
  • The man in the flat cap and the man in the suit are visible in a bar setting. [frame:1]
  • The woman in the hat is visible, speaking and gesturing. [frame:2]
  • The man in the flat cap looks upward while the man in the suit looks forward. [frame:3]
  • The man in the suit leans toward the woman and another man in a bowler hat. [frame:4]
Also said
“You were born in Liston Grove.” 7:35 · “Hoxton.” 7:59
Seen
apron, flat cap, dark hat, suit, wide-brimmed hat, bowler hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: class distinction, urban identity, social judgment; style notes: tight framing on characters, high-contrast lighting, static camera emphasizing dialogue

Two men and a woman are in a crowded interior space, speaking to each other. The woman identifies her origin as Hoxton, and one man questions her about her background and current location.

“That's a man. He's a bloody busybody. That's what he is. How are all your people down in Celtic?” 7:26 · “How do you come to be so far east?” 7:33 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 7:30 (passage 7:25–8:00); US record: No renewal found

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