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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 2 · permalink

Forest

0:54–1:21 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 0:550:55Frame at 0:580:58Frame at 1:091:09Frame at 1:181:18

Play from 0:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends. Sequence 2 · shots 1–5. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, light-colored dress, braided hair, fair complexion visible
  • man, dark clothing, mustache, possibly wearing a hat or hood visible
Seen happening
  • A woman stands in a wooded area. [frame:1]
  • The woman walks toward a man standing under trees. [frame:3]
  • The man and woman face each other closely. [frame:4]
Seen
light-colored dress [frame:1], dark clothing [frame:4], trees [frame:2], triangular object on ground [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or intimate; themes: encounter, nature setting, dramatic confrontation; style notes: black-and-white, medium to close framing, high contrast lighting, static camera

A woman in a light dress stands in a wooded area, then walks toward a man in dark clothing; they face each other closely in the final shot. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this segment.

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 0:55 (passage 0:54–1:21); US record: No renewal found

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