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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 113 · permalink

Race track

1:08:11–1:08:43 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 1:08:151:08:15Frame at 1:08:231:08:23Frame at 1:08:301:08:30Frame at 1:08:401:08:40

Play from 1:08:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 35 · shots 284–291. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
race_track (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • spectators in coats and hats, visible in crowd visible
  • man in light-colored suit and hat, leaning over railing visible
  • man in dark suit, standing near starting gate visible
  • unspecified, audible only audible
Seen happening
  • Horses are lined up at the starting gate with spectators watching. [frame:1]
  • A horse is shown close-up, possibly struggling or hesitating. [frame:2]
  • A man in a suit leans over a railing, watching the race. [frame:3]
  • Men are visible near the starting gate structure. [frame:4]
Also said
“Come on! It's Brown Betts for half a length, Hezekiah second, Invincible is third, Wheelwright is fourth, Lancelot is fifth, and Skyrocket!” 68:13 · “I'd still like to see this race. But we've got to find the bar first. I'd still like to see the race.” 68:13
Seen
starting_gate, horses, crowd, railing
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: anticipatory and slightly chaotic; themes: sports, spectatorship, race commentary; style notes: black-and-white, medium to long shots, handheld or static camera capturing crowd and track action

A horse race is underway at a track with spectators watching; one horse, Skyrocket, hesitates at the starting gate before running. A commentator describes the race positions while expressing a desire to find a bar.

“There they go! Brown Betts is going to front, Hezekiah second, and there's Skyrocket left at the post.” 68:13 · “He won't go, he won't go! He's starting, he's starting! He's starting! He's starting! He's going!” 68:13 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 1:08:15 (passage 1:08:11–1:08:43); US record: No renewal found

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