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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 20 · permalink

Shop

13:18–13:40 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 13:2013:20Frame at 13:2413:24Frame at 13:3313:33

Play from 13:18 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 44–46. 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
  • Uncle Henry (named at t:13:18): older man, white hair, wearing vest and shirt, standing behind counter visible, audible
  • older man, mustache, wearing hat and overalls, standing in front of counter visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man behind a counter greets another man who approaches him. [frame:1]
  • The man in the hat speaks, looking surprised or concerned. [frame:2]
  • The two men continue their conversation across the counter. [frame:3]
Also said
“Me and Abner just ain't got around to making them bills out yet this month. They're knowing it to you so long that I... Oh, cut, cut, cut now. What was you needin'?” 13:27 · “We'll plum out a flower. Flower? Granny's, we got plenty of it. Just got a fresh batch in the day before yesterday.” 13:38
Seen
cash register [frame:1], shelves with goods [frame:1], hat [frame:2], overalls [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual, slightly tense; themes: debt and obligation, rural commerce, familial address in business settings; style notes: medium shots, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting typical of 1940s studio films

Two men converse in a shop; one, behind a counter, is addressed as Uncle Henry, while the other, in a hat and overalls, discusses a bill and mentions flower. The setting includes shelves stocked with goods and a cash register.

“Well, good morning, Uncle Henry. Morning, Mom. What can I do for you?” 13:18 · “I come to see you about that bill I owe you. Oh, well, uh...” 13:23 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 13:20 (passage 13:18–13:40); US record: No renewal found

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