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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 100 · permalink

Fairground

59:55–1:00:36 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Not yet checked. The automatic checks have not run on this beat. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:00:001:00:00Frame at 1:00:091:00:09Frame at 1:00:251:00:25

Play from 59:55 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 34 · shots 239–241. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
fairground (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Squire (named at t:60:20): man in a suit and hat, standing at a booth visible, audible
  • Cedric (named at t:60:00): boy in a hat, wearing a light shirt, standing near the booth visible, audible
  • crowd of men, women, and children in period clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A crowd gathers at a fairground with a Ferris wheel and tents in the background. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit interacts with a boy and others at a ticket booth. [frame:2]
Also said
“All right, right this way, folks. All right, step this way. One dime, ten cents, a tenth part of a dollar.” 60:30
Seen
Ferris wheel, tents, ticket booth, crowd of people, water tower
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted and bustling; themes: fairground entertainment, generosity, childhood curiosity; style notes: black-and-white, wide shots of crowd and fairground, medium shots at ticket booth, natural daylight

A man in a suit speaks to a boy named Cedric at a crowded fairground, offering him money to see a show before post time. The fair features a Ferris wheel and tents, with people gathered around a ticket booth.

“Step right this way, folks, and solve the secret of that crystal maze. Hello, Cedric, my boy. Why don't you go in and see the show? I ain't got no money. Well, I think that could be remedied. Here you are, my son.” 60:00 · “Do you reckon I'll have time? Why, of course, my boy. It's an hour yet before post time. What's it like, Squire? It's all right, Cedric.” 60:20 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 Bashful Bachelor (1942) at 1:00:00 (passage 59:55–1:00:36); US record: No renewal found

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