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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 18 · permalink

Private office

12:38–12:56 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 12:4712:47

Play from 12:38 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 8 · shots 41–41. 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
  • light-haired man, wearing vest and shirt, seated visible
  • older man with white hair, wearing dark suit, seated visible
Seen happening
  • Two men are seated at a table talking. [frame:1]
Seen
table [frame:1], chairs [frame:1], wall-mounted objects (possibly hats or tools) [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or confrontational; themes: miscommunication, conflict; style notes: black-and-white, medium two-shot, high-contrast lighting, static framing

Two men sit at a table in a dimly lit interior space, speaking; one says 'Wrong number!' at 12:51. No names are spoken, and no objects beyond furniture and wall decor are clearly identifiable.

“Or to have a dead flame thing took you out of here. Ork not to ever let him put it in here to store it with. That's what we ought to do. Hang it up for him. Take a stop, Mike.” 12:43 · “Wrong number!” 12:51 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 12:47 (passage 12:38–12:56); US record: No renewal found

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