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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 23 · permalink

Shop

15:16–15:39 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 15:1715:17Frame at 15:2915:29

Play from 15:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 8 · shots 56–57. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
shop (shop, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • older man, mustache, white shirt, dark vest and tie visible
  • woman, dark hair, patterned dress, cardigan visible
  • woman, light hair, dark dress, standing behind p2 visible
  • children, partially visible behind p2 visible
  • Mr. Edwards (named at t:15:27): unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A man with a mustache and vest looks at the camera. [frame:1]
  • A man in a vest stands in a shop with two women and children. [frame:2]
Also said
“Don't you think, Mr. Edwards? Uh, we'll get the groceries over there some way or other with her.” 15:27 · “What them kids need is a good, strong right arm.” 15:36
Seen
shelves with goods [frame:2], table with food items [frame:2], chairs [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comic domestic tension; themes: parenting, gender roles, family dynamics; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up and medium shot, studio lighting, static framing

A man in a vest and tie is shown in close-up, then a wider shot reveals him in a shop with two women and children. A voice speaks about children needing a strong father and a right arm, addressing someone as Mr. Edwards.

“Where are those children? Where are those children?” 15:18 · “Here we are. It's so hard for one little woman to cope with them.” 15:19 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 15:17 (passage 15:16–15:39); US record: No renewal found

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