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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 34 · permalink

Private office

21:38–22:08 Registered 1942

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Frame at 21:5321:53

Play from 21:38 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 12 · shots 80–80. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a fedora and dark coat, seen from back visible
  • Mr. T-Buddy (named at t:21:41): man wearing a light suit, patterned tie, and fedora, smiling visible
  • woman entering from right, partially visible visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a fedora faces another man near an eye chart. [frame:1]
Also said
“You're proud I'll run into you four too late. Well, much obliged, Doctor. Yes, Mr. Peabody, what a blessing is clear vision.” 21:52 · “Oh, excuse me, ma'am.” 22:06
Seen
eye chart [frame:1], fedora hats [frame:1], suit and tie [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light comedic; themes: miscommunication, professional setting with absurd dialogue; style notes: medium two-shot, studio lighting, static camera, eye chart as visual gag

A man in a fedora speaks to another man in a hat and suit near an eye chart; a woman enters and apologizes. The transcript includes fragmented dialogue referencing groceries, a doctor, and clear vision.

“Oh, oh, yes, sir, yes, sir. Ah, the groceries, please, Mr. T-Buddy. What, sir, sir, yes, sir. What is, sir, sir?” 21:41 · “Yeah.” 21:51 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 21:53 (passage 21:38–22:08); US record: No renewal found

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