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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 11 · permalink

Shop

5:23–5:34 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 5:285:28

Play from 5:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 7 · shots 23–23. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
shop (shop, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Abner (named at t:5:26): man in dark suit and hat, standing upright visible, audible
  • Lobb (named at t:5:26): man in dark suit and hat, standing upright visible, audible
  • Marjorie (named at t:5:23): woman in patterned dress, partially visible behind counter visible
  • man in dark suit, bending over counter visible
Also said
“Abner, I sort of wanted to talk to you.” 5:29 · “Why, sure. Ain't nothing wrong, is it?” 5:32
Seen
counter [frame:1], shelves with goods [frame:1], hat [frame:1], suit [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, conversational; themes: social interaction, everyday setting, dialogue-driven; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting typical of 1940s studio films

Two men greet each other and a woman in what appears to be a shop; one man expresses a desire to speak privately. The setting includes shelves and a counter, with another person visible in the background.

“Good morning, Long. Oh, morning, Marjorie.” 5:23 · “Morning, Abner. Morning, Lobb.” 5:26 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 5:28 (passage 5:23–5:34); US record: No renewal found

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