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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 104 · permalink

Jail

1:02:45–1:03:13 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 1:02:591:02:59

Play from 1:02:45 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 35 · shots 252–252. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
jail (jail, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man visible behind bars, wearing dark clothing, medium build visible, audible
  • man standing outside bars, wearing hat and coat, seen from side visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man speaks from behind jail bars while another stands outside. [frame:1]
Also said
“Poor Steve Peabody's money.” 63:08 · “I'm a horse to be honest.” 63:11
Seen
jail bars, hat, coat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and ironic; themes: imprisonment, misunderstanding, identity; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, medium shot framed through bars, static camera

A man speaks from inside jail bars while another stands outside; the transcript includes references to bonds, a bank messenger, and 'Poor Steve Peabody's money.' No names are established for the visible individuals beyond what is spoken.

“How about those bonds and” 62:48 · “A.C. Oh, well, could I help that?” 62:50 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 1:02:59 (passage 1:02:45–1:03:13); US record: No renewal found

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