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Pygmalion · Beat 9 · permalink

Street

8:00–9:17 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; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 8:028:02Frame at 8:088:08Frame at 8:198:19Frame at 8:508:50

Play from 8:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 3 · shots 22–26. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man, middle-aged, wearing glasses, dark hat, overcoat, and tie visible, audible
  • man, younger, wearing dark hat and overcoat, tie visible visible, audible
  • woman, blonde, wearing dark coat and hat visible, audible
  • woman, older, wearing dark coat and hat visible, audible
  • crowd of men and women in hats and coats visible
Seen happening
  • A man in glasses and a hat speaks to the camera. [frame:1]
  • A crowd of people in hats and coats gather on a street. [frame:2]
  • A younger man in a hat speaks. [frame:3]
  • Two women and a man stand together on a street, talking. [frame:4]
Also said
“Yes, we should be so grateful to you if you could find us a cab. I don't know whether you've noticed it, but it stopped raining.” 9:06 · “and will insane asylum.” 9:15
Seen
hats [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], overcoats [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], glasses [frame:1], tie [frame:1, frame:3], crowd [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: class distinction, social interaction, urban setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups and group shots, high-contrast lighting, period costume

A man in a hat and glasses speaks to a crowd and then to two women; another man in a hat is also present. The transcript includes dialogue about origins, a cab, and a draft, with one woman asking for help finding a cab.

“Blimey, you know everything you do. Where's your warrant? Here he is.” 8:03 · “You know, I was brought up in Large Lady Park near Epsom. That's the devil of a name, isn't it?” 8:46 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 8:02 (passage 8:00–9:17); US record: No renewal found

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