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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 36 · permalink

Shop

22:12–22:43 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 22:1722:17Frame at 22:3322:33

Play from 22:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 82–83. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
shop (shop, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man wearing a hat and dark coat, entering through a doorway visible
  • man in light-colored suit and hat, standing near a stack of cans visible
  • man in dark vest and light shirt, standing beside p2 visible
  • man partially visible in frame 1, wearing dark coat and hat, near a counter visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands near a counter in a dimly lit interior. [frame:1]
  • A man enters through a doorway into a shop where two other men stand near a stack of cans. [frame:2]
Also said
“Wait a minute, here he comes now.” 22:29 · “Don't let on, Cedric. Don't let on.” 22:31
Seen
stack of cans, vending machine, doorway, counter
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comedic suspense; themes: mischievous plan, impending arrival, social interaction in a shop; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, high contrast lighting, static camera

Two men are seen in a dimly lit interior, one standing near a counter with a large stack of cans, while another enters through a doorway. A third man, partially visible, appears to be speaking to them, referencing a plan involving tying someone to railroad tracks and saving him.

“No, there must have rained last night.” 22:20 · “And we'll tie Abner to the railroad track, and just as the train gets right to him, I'll run up there and untie the ropes and save his life and make a hero.” 22:22 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 22:17 (passage 22:12–22:43); US record: No renewal found

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