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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 124 · permalink

Living room

1:13:27–1:13:49 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 1:13:301:13:30Frame at 1:13:361:13:36Frame at 1:13:421:13:42Frame at 1:13:471:13:47

Play from 1:13:27 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 41 · shots 319–322. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man with mustache, wearing suit and tie, middle-aged visible, audible
  • woman in lace dress with floral hairpiece, heavyset visible
  • older man with white hair, wearing bow tie and suit, standing behind p2 visible
  • group of men and women in formal attire, some wearing hats visible
Seen happening
  • A woman and man behind her react to the announcement. [frame:2]
  • A group of guests in a room react to the wedding being postponed. [frame:3]
  • The man in the suit reacts with surprise to the suggestion the wedding be canceled. [frame:4]
Also said
“In view of this unfortunate circumstance, I think we can consider this wedding postponed.” 73:38 · “I agree if it's canceled.” 73:47
Seen
suit and tie, lace dress with floral hairpiece, bow tie and suit, formal attire and hats
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and dramatic; themes: marriage, rumor, social scandal; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal framing

A man in a suit speaks about a wedding being postponed due to a husband's supposed death. A group of guests, including a woman in a lace dress and a man behind her, react in a dimly lit room.

“There's her legal-weighted husband right there.” 73:28 · “She's been telling it around that he's dead.” 73:33 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 1:13:30 (passage 1:13:27–1:13:49); US record: No renewal found

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