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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 122 · permalink

Private office

1:12:50–1:13:01 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 1:12:521:12:52Frame at 1:12:561:12:56Frame at 1:13:001:13:00

Play from 1:12:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 41 · shots 313–315. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Judge (named at t:72:57): older man with glasses, wearing a dark suit and bow tie, holding a book visible, audible
  • woman with blonde hair, wearing a dark dress, standing with hands clasped visible
  • woman with dark hair, wearing a light lace dress, holding a bouquet visible
  • man with dark hair, wearing a suit and tie, standing beside p3 visible
Also said
“Go ahead.” 72:56 · “You may proceed, Judge. Well, are there any other just causes?” 72:57
Seen
bouquet, book, wall sconce, picture frame
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, slightly comedic; themes: marriage ceremony, legal procedure, social formality; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, static framing, black-and-white film

Three people stand before a judge during a wedding ceremony; a woman holds flowers while a man in a suit looks on. A judge speaks, asking if there are any objections to the marriage.

“Now, wait a minute. Are you tying a knot here, or is he doing the hitching?” 72:50 · “Well, well...” 72:54 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 1:12:52 (passage 1:12:50–1:13:01); US record: No renewal found

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