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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 28 · permalink

Living room

18:23–18:35 Registered 1942

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Frame at 18:2918:29

Play from 18:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 11 · shots 65–65. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in suit and hat, standing near piano visible
  • woman in dress with apron, standing near piano visible, audible
  • Nick (named at t:18:31): man approaching down street (off-screen or distant) mentioned
Also said
“Hey, Nick, here comes a guy down the street and...” 18:31
Seen
piano [frame:1], sign with 'BNCO' visible on wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light comedic tension; themes: domestic banter, romantic comedy, interruption by outsider; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, static framing, studio lighting with shadows

A man and a woman stand near a piano in a dimly lit interior as the woman speaks about hunger and mentions someone named Nick. A man is seen approaching down a street in the same scene.

“I'm hungry. You're hungry?” 18:26 · “If you don't quit talking about Eaton, I'm going to take a bite out of you.” 18:28 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 18:29 (passage 18:23–18:35); US record: No renewal found

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