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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 3 · permalink

Living room

1:21–1:37 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 1:261:26Frame at 1:341:34

Play from 1:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends. Sequence 2 · shots 6–7. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man, adult, wearing a suit, standing visible
  • woman, adult, seated, wearing a dark dress visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit stands beside a seated woman in a room with patterned wallpaper. [frame:2]
  • Text on screen reads 'the malden'. [frame:2]
Seen
lamp, armchair, curtains, text: the malden
On screen
the malden
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dramatic; themes: romance, storytelling; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, studio lighting, period decor

A man in a suit stands beside a seated woman in a dimly lit room with patterned wallpaper and a lamp; text on screen reads 'the malden'. A line from the transcript mentions a Black Knight and a captive maiden being married.

“And so the Black Knight and the captive maiden were married and lived happily ever after.” 1:28 · “Oh, wasn't he wonderful?” 1:35 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 1:26 (passage 1:21–1:37); US record: No renewal found

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