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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 29 · permalink

Sidewalk

18:35–19:07 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 18:5018:50Frame at 19:0619:06

Play from 18:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 11 · shots 66–67. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, fedora, carrying basket of groceries visible
  • Sam (named at t:18:45): man in light suit, fedora, glasses, behind counter visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Man in dark suit holds a basket of groceries while standing near a wooden fence. [frame:1]
  • Man in light suit gestures with his hand behind a counter. [frame:2]
Also said
“Doggy, that's pretty good to keep three of them things in there at once, you know what? Three? I was juggling six balls.” 18:49 · “Well, if you could only see three balls when I'm juggling six, there must be something wrong with your glasses. Let me send you a pair of glasses. Oh, no, I ain't got no money to be buying nothing, no. Well, maybe we can make a trade.” 18:58
Seen
basket of groceries [frame:1], wooden fence [frame:1], counter [frame:2], sign with letters C B O L N E R Q G [frame:2]
On screen
C B O L N E R Q G
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted; themes: comedy, everyday interaction, miscommunication; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, period costumes

Two men in suits and hats interact outdoors near a wooden fence; one holds a basket of groceries while the other gestures at a counter. One man jokes about juggling balls, and they discuss glasses and trading.

“He's got a basket of groceries cramped.” 18:35 · “Well, good morning, good morning, good morning, Sam.” 18:45 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 18:50 (passage 18:35–19:07); US record: No renewal found

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