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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 25 · permalink

Shop

16:44–17:21 Registered 1942

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Frame at 17:0317:03

Play from 16:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 8 · shots 62–62. 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
  • man wearing a fedora and overcoat, standing upright visible
  • Henry (named at t:16:51): person in dark clothing, bending over, partially obscured visible
  • Mom (named at t:17:01): not visible audible, mentioned
Seen happening
  • A person bends over spilled cans while a man in a hat stands nearby. [frame:1]
Also said
“Come on, pitch in and help me straighten up these cans.” 16:59 · “Never mind. I'll do it myself. That old woman can...” 17:19
Seen
cans [frame:1], shelves with goods [frame:1], Lone Star beer sign [frame:1], hanging bananas [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: domestic tension; themes: family obligation, gender roles, everyday labor; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, cluttered set suggesting a small store

A man in a hat stands in a shop as another person bends over spilled cans; dialogue suggests a domestic scene involving a mother and someone named Henry. The setting includes shelves of goods and a sign for 'Lone Star' beer.

“Howdy, Mr. Lone. Oh, hello, Henry.” 16:51 · “Would you have an accident? Yeah, one went through here a few minutes ago.” 16:55 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 17:03 (passage 16:44–17:21); US record: No renewal found

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