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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 115 · permalink

Racecourse

1:09:13–1:09:38 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 1:09:181:09:18Frame at 1:09:261:09:26Frame at 1:09:311:09:31Frame at 1:09:351:09:35

Play from 1:09:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 293–296. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
racecourse (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • man in hat and suit, leaning on railing, watching race visible
  • woman in hat, smiling, standing next to man in frame 2 visible
  • crowd of spectators in hats and coats, visible in stands and near track visible
  • unseen narrator audible
Seen happening
  • Horses race past starting gates with spectators watching. [frame:1]
  • Spectators in hats watch intently from the stands. [frame:2]
  • Horses race toward finish line with crowd silhouetted in foreground. [frame:3]
  • Long shot of racetrack with crowd on left and horses distant on track. [frame:4]
Seen
starting gates [frame:1], racetrack [frame:1, frame:4], crowd in stands [frame:2, frame:4], horses racing [frame:1, frame:3], railings and fences [frame:1, frame:2, frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and competitive; themes: competition, spectatorship, sports drama; style notes: black-and-white, wide shots of track and crowd, medium shots of spectators, dynamic framing following race action

A horse race is underway with spectators watching from the stands; the horses 'Skyrocket' and 'Brown' are neck and neck near the finish line. The race is being narrated live, describing the horses' positions and movements as they approach the final stretch.

“and skyrocket is waking up but still lands now he's passing wheel life he's passing lonsalot round the far turn brown that's his still in front head back to the second and here comes skyrocket moving fast he's passed invincible he's passed he's a kaya here he comes he's challenging brown best it's brown that's skyrocket they're neck and neck it's brown up skyrocket head to head it's brown” 69:13 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 1:09:18 (passage 1:09:13–1:09:38); US record: No renewal found

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