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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 24 · permalink

Shop

15:39–16:44 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 15:4215:42Frame at 16:0816:08Frame at 16:3616:36Frame at 16:4216:42

Play from 15:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 8 · shots 58–61. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(shop, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Lon (named at t:15:56): older man, white hair, wearing dark vest and shirt, handling a wicker basket visible, audible
  • Dovey (named at t:16:06): man in dark apron, standing near stacked cans, visible in frame 1 and 3 visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in an apron stands near a stack of cans while another man walks toward the door. [frame:1]
  • An older man holds a wicker basket and looks at its contents. [frame:2]
  • A man in a vest walks past a display of canned goods toward the door. [frame:3]
  • The older man gestures while holding a basket, surrounded by shelves of goods. [frame:4]
Also said
“Aye, Dovey, that woman's gonna get you yet, Long. She's been trying to marry you for years. Not if I'm in my right mind, she won't.” 16:06 · “Didn't she say something the other day long about her husband a-dying?” 16:30
Seen
stacked cans [frame:1], wicker basket [frame:2], shelves with goods [frame:4], window showing street [frame:1], apron [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted and conversational; themes: romantic comedy, small-town life, marriage plots; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static camera, studio lighting, period costumes

Two men are in a shop, one arranging canned goods and the other handling a basket of groceries; they discuss a woman named Mary and her pies, and mention a husband who died in Oklahoma. The setting includes shelves of goods and a window showing a street outside.

“Go on, pick them up, Lon.” 15:56 · “Hand me a sack of them potatoes as you go by there, Long.” 16:02 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 15:42 (passage 15:39–16:44); US record: No renewal found

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