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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 16 · permalink

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9:31–11:28 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 10:3010:30

Play from 9:31 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 7 · shots 37–37. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
shop (shop, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and fedora, holding a glass visible
  • man in work shirt and hat, standing center visible
  • older man with glasses and light suit, facing p1 visible
  • Granny (named at t:9:34): woman (voice only) audible
  • Lum (named at t:9:56): man named Lum (voice only) audible
  • Cedric (named at t:10:07): man named Cedric (voice only) audible
  • Lawrence (named at t:10:12): man named Lawrence (voice only) audible
  • Abner (named at t:10:39): man named Abner (voice only) audible
  • Long (named at t:10:14): man named Long (voice only) audible
  • Adler (named at t:11:06): man named Adler (voice only) audible
  • Obi-Dos (named at t:11:16): man named Obi-Dos (voice only) audible
  • Dick Huddleston (named at t:11:19): man named Dick Huddleston (mentioned) mentioned
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit holds a glass while talking to two other men in a shop. [frame:1]
Also said
“If you'll just let me keep that horse now, I'll promise you I'll never make another trade as long as I live. Nothing to him?” 10:15 · “Uh, Cedric, you take good care of my horse for me now. Uh, Mr. Abner, do I have to stay with the horse all the time?” 10:39
Seen
glass [frame:1], hats [frame:1], work shirt [frame:1], suit [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comic and slightly chaotic; themes: misadventure, barter, family negotiation, rural commerce; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, period costumes, staged interior

Three men in hats stand in a rustic interior, one holding a glass, while dialogue reveals a horse was traded for a car and a character named Cedric is tasked with watching it. A woman off-screen gives instructions about the horse and a flour shortage is mentioned.

“- Oh. - What did you swap for that horse?” 9:39 · “Well now, long you said yourself that old deliver car was just falling all to pieces. Deliver car? You mean you swapped it off for that horse?” 9:43 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 10:30 (passage 9:31–11:28); US record: No renewal found

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