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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 13 · permalink

Shop

6:47–7:05 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 6:496:49Frame at 6:546:54Frame at 7:017:01

Play from 6:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 7 · shots 28–30. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
shop (shop, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • Lance (named at t:6:49): man with mustache, wearing fedora and suit visible, audible
  • Abner (named at t:7:01): older man with glasses, wearing dark jacket and light shirt visible, audible
Also said
“So after all these years, you're finally going to pop the question, huh?” 6:56 · “Well, she's a mighty fine little woman, Abner.” 7:01
Seen
fedora hat, glasses, shelves with bottles or jars, hats on display
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: wry and conversational; themes: marriage proposal, father-son dynamics, romantic hesitation; style notes: medium close-ups, studio lighting, static framing

Two men are in conversation in an interior setting; one wears a hat and suit, the other is older with glasses. The dialogue suggests a discussion about marriage and a character named Abner.

“Well, maybe I could get her to marry me.” 6:47 · “Now, Lance, Dad blamed you.” 6:49 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 6:49 (passage 6:47–7:05); US record: No renewal found

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