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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 101 · permalink

Theatre

1:00:36–1:01:35 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 1:00:391:00:39Frame at 1:01:141:01:14Frame at 1:01:171:01:17Frame at 1:01:341:01:34

Play from 1:00:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 35 · shots 242–247. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
theatre (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, wearing a hat and bow tie, expressive face visible, audible
  • Marjorie (named at t:61:07): woman with dark hat and coat, styled hair visible, audible
  • Skyrocket (named at t:60:43): man in suit and fedora, medium build visible, audible
  • Square (named at t:61:18): man in suit and hat, older, balding visible, audible
  • man in suit and hat, standing with p3 and p4 visible
Also said
“I reckon you ought to luck today, Miss Marjorie. She sure isn't fine fettle.” 61:07 · “I'm afraid Mr. Peabody is temporarily detained. I find that Skyrocket did come from the William Stock Farm.” 61:32
Seen
curtains, hats, bow tie, suits, fedora, checkered wall
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: anxious and conspiratorial; themes: miscommunication, time pressure, social maneuvering; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups and two-shots, theatrical lighting with high contrast, static camera

A group of characters, including a woman named Marjorie and men referred to as Skyrocket and Square, discuss locating someone named Cedric and mention a horse named Skyrocket from William Stock Farm. One character suggests another, Bessie, might feign a fall to gain attention, while others note time constraints and an alternate writer named Abner.

“What you looking for digested about, Skyrocket?” 60:43 · “Do you think there's some way that you could manage to fall down or something without hurting yourself?” 61:00 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 1:00:39 (passage 1:00:36–1:01:35); US record: No renewal found

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