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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 107 · permalink

Jail

1:05:18–1:05:55 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 1:05:271:05:27Frame at 1:05:421:05:42Frame at 1:05:511:05:51

Play from 1:05:18 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 264–266. 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 in suit and hat, standing near desk visible, audible
  • Abner (named at t:65:26): man in hat and coat, seated, facing p1 visible, audible
  • Sheriff (named at t:65:48): man in hat and coat, standing between p1 and p2 visible, audible
  • Mom (named at t:65:34): woman, mentioned only mentioned
  • Margie (named at t:65:34): woman, mentioned only mentioned
  • Cedric (named at t:65:34): man, mentioned only mentioned
  • Lon (named at t:65:53): man, mentioned only mentioned
Also said
“Sheriff, ain't there some way you could lend him to me for an hour or two?” 65:48 · “Sorry, I can't do her. It's getting the law.” 65:51
Seen
jail bars, desk, hat, suit, white helmet, mug
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: confinement, duty vs. personal need, family responsibility; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, confined framing emphasizing bars and authority

A man in a suit and hat speaks with two others in a jail cell area; one man asks the sheriff to lend him out for an hour, but the sheriff refuses, citing the law. The dialogue reveals a plot involving horse riding, theft, and consequences for schooling and a store.

“I'm glad we have these bars between us and him.” 65:20 · “For two cents, I'd have broke out of this burn cage. You know that, don't you, kid? Abner, you've got to ride Skyrocky.” 65:26 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 1:05:27 (passage 1:05:18–1:05:55); US record: No renewal found

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