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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 112 · permalink

Racetrack

1:07:42–1:08:11 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 1:07:451:07:45Frame at 1:07:521:07:52Frame at 1:08:021:08:02Frame at 1:08:101:08:10

Play from 1:07:42 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 280–283. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
racetrack (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and hat, standing near vehicle visible
  • Edward (named at t:67:58): man in light shirt and cap, near vehicle visible
  • man in dark suit and hat, facing p2 visible
  • man in light shirt and cap, being lifted onto platform visible
  • man in white shirt with number 6 and cap, standing on platform visible
  • crowd of men in hats and suits visible
Seen happening
  • A man is urged to get into a vehicle. [frame:1]
  • A man in a cap is spoken to by another man in a suit. [frame:2]
  • A man is lifted onto a platform by a crowd. [frame:3]
  • A man in a numbered shirt stands on a platform above the crowd. [frame:4]
Also said
“If I ever catch him, I'll whop him right on top of the head.” 68:03 · “We collect you both got to come in together in order to win.” 68:08
Seen
open-top vehicle [frame:1], racetrack grandstand [frame:1], platform [frame:3], number 6 shirt [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and chaotic; themes: racing, competition, group dynamics; style notes: black-and-white, medium to wide shots, outdoor daylight, crowd framing

A man is urged to get into a vehicle at a racetrack while another is lifted onto a platform; a crowd is present and a race official is visible. The transcript mentions Edward and Cedric, and a rule that two people must enter together to win.

“I...” 67:58 · “Come on, Edward. Get on there, quick. Oh, blame that Cedric wheat hunt.” 67:58 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 1:07:45 (passage 1:07:42–1:08:11); US record: No renewal found

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