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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 33 · permalink

Street

21:03–21:38 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 21:0521:05Frame at 21:1021:10Frame at 21:2421:24Frame at 21:3721:37

Play from 21:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends. Sequence 12 · shots 76–79. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in dark coat, fedora, and glasses, older, medium build visible, audible
  • man in light suit, fedora, and tie, smiling, medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark coat and hat stands with hands on hips, looking surprised. [frame:1]
  • A man in a light suit stands next to a poster advertising 'Doctor Hersh's Tonic' and points to it. [frame:2]
  • The man in the light suit points to letters on an eye chart while the man in the dark coat looks at it. [frame:3]
  • The man in the dark coat reacts with surprise or awe. [frame:4]
Also said
“That's another O, Wayne. That's fine. And here.” 21:25 · “A hundred percent correct, as we say in the optical world. Got him right, did I? You certainly did. Well, good for me. Watch this.” 21:34
Seen
poster [frame:2], eye chart [frame:3], fedora hat [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], glasses [frame:1, frame:4]
On screen
DOCTOR HERSH'S TONIC PRICE $1.00
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comedic; themes: vision testing, quack medicine, comedy of errors; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static camera, studio lighting on outdoor set

A man in a suit and hat stands beside a poster for 'Doctor Hersh's Tonic' and an eye chart, while another man in a dark coat and hat reacts to reading letters on the chart. The dialogue suggests the man in the suit is testing the other's vision with glasses, and the tonic poster is visible in the background.

“Well, these must be x-ray glasses. I can see every bone in your body.” 21:03 · “Oh, I beg your pardon. That's my last time. There we are. Now, the tent, please read this letter.” 21:09 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 21:05 (passage 21:03–21:38); US record: No renewal found

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