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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 105 · permalink

Jail

1:03:13–1:03:45 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 1:03:151:03:15Frame at 1:03:191:03:19Frame at 1:03:331:03:33Frame at 1:03:441:03:44

Play from 1:03:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 35 · shots 253–257. 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, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4, t:63:34
People
  • Bugs (named at t:63:21): older man, bearded, wearing glasses and a hat, visible behind bars visible, audible
  • younger man, wearing a hat and suit, standing outside the cell bars visible, audible
  • man with dark hair and beard, visible behind bars, partially obscured visible
Seen happening
  • An older man with glasses and a hat speaks behind bars. [frame:1]
  • A younger man in a suit stands outside the cell bars, looking at the older man. [frame:2]
  • Three men are visible in the jail cell, with the younger man standing outside the bars. [frame:3]
  • The older man with glasses and a hat continues speaking behind bars. [frame:4]
Also said
“If I ever get out of here,” 63:34 · “I'm gonna steal Seabiscuit. Me, no.” 63:36
Seen
jail bars [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], hat [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], glasses [frame:1, frame:4], suit [frame:2, frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and defiant; themes: crime, defiance, confinement; style notes: close-up shots of faces behind bars, high contrast lighting, static camera emphasizing confinement

Two men are in a jail cell; one, an older man with glasses and a hat, speaks about past crimes and future plans while the other listens. The setting is clearly a jail, with bars visible and dialogue referencing being 'in here' and 'getting out'.

“I bet you I stole a thousand head of horses during my time.” 63:13 · “That's the toughest deal in the air, Bugs.” 63:21 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 1:03:15 (passage 1:03:13–1:03:45); US record: No renewal found

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