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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 128 · permalink

Living room

1:14:47–1:15:52 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 1:15:201:15:20

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Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 42 · shots 334–334. 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:1
Time of day
night evidence: t:74:48
People
  • Mr. Edwards (named at t:75:06): man, middle-aged, wearing a suit and holding a hat visible, audible
  • Miss Geraldine (named at t:74:52): woman, middle-aged, wearing dark dress, standing visible, audible
Also said
“What were you gonna say?” 75:19 · “Maybe I can think of it by Wednesday night. Good night, Miss Giraldi.” 75:32
Seen
hat [frame:1], patterned wallpaper [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: awkward and hesitant; themes: romantic hesitation, social formality, memory and forgetfulness; style notes: medium two-shot, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s studio films

A man and a woman stand facing each other in a dimly lit room with patterned wallpaper; they exchange goodbyes and mention future meetings. The man holds a hat and refers to going through a closet, while the woman responds with hesitation and forgetfulness.

“We're getting to be a couple of night owls, ain't we?” 74:48 · “Mr. Edwards, you're always trying to go through that closet. I know it. I know it. I don't know what's the matter with me anyway.” 75:06 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 1:15:20 (passage 1:14:47–1:15:52); US record: No renewal found

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