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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 26 · permalink

Shop

17:21–18:00 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 17:4117:41

Play from 17:21 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 9 · shots 63–63. 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
  • Mr. Abner (named at t:17:50): older man, white hair, dark suit, standing right visible, audible
  • Cedric (named at t:17:28): middle-aged man, wearing hat and vest, holding can, center visible, audible
  • Long (named at t:17:32): man in vest and tie, left side, facing p2 visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Three men stand near stacked canned goods in a shop-like setting. [frame:1]
Also said
“You was the one she wanted to bring it over. You was the one that swapped off the delivery car. Now, Lon, you said you wouldn't bring that up again. Go on, take them groceries over there.” 17:40 · “I'll take it over for you, Mr. Abner. No, you don't, Cedric. Make him do it.” 17:50
Seen
stacked canned goods [frame:1], hat [frame:1], suit [frame:1], vest [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and directive; themes: conflict over responsibility, social hierarchy in service, gendered labor roles; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting typical of 1940s studio production

Three men stand near stacked canned goods in what appears to be a shop or storage area; one man is instructed to deliver groceries while another is told not to bring up a past incident involving a delivery car. No names are visually confirmed, though 'Cedric' and 'Long' are spoken.

“Yes, looking all right, Cedric.” 17:28 · “Stay there, Long.” 17:32 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 17:41 (passage 17:21–18:00); US record: No renewal found

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