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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 37 · permalink

Shop

22:43–24:04 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 23:1823:18Frame at 23:5523:55Frame at 24:0124:01

Play from 22:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 84–86. 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
  • Long (named at t:23:04): older man, balding, wearing vest and tie, visible in frame 1 and 2 visible, audible
  • Cedric (named at t:22:54): man wearing hat and jacket, visible in frame 1 and 2 visible, audible
  • Granny (named at t:23:30): older man with white hair, wearing suit, visible in frame 1 and 2 visible, audible
  • man in dark suit and hat, standing near counter in frame 2 and 3 visible
  • Mr. Fine Ridge (named at t:24:01): man in suit, entering from right in frame 3 visible
Seen happening
  • Three men stand in a shop and talk about glasses and groceries. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit stands near a counter while another man enters the shop. [frame:2]
  • A man in a suit walks toward the counter as another man stands near the door. [frame:3]
Also said
“All right, Granny, give me them things. Wait a minute. What you fixing to do, Long? I'm going to make him give us them groceries back. Now, wait a minute. And I'm going to run him out of town so fast he'll set the woods on par.” 23:30 · “Uh-oh, there comes Mr. Fine Ridge.” 24:01
Seen
glasses [frame:1], counter [frame:2], shelves with goods [frame:2], hats on wall [frame:2], wooden table [frame:2], basket [t:23:04]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: conflict over property, small-town justice, humor through exaggeration; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costumes, shop interior with props arranged for visual depth

Three men converse in a shop; one demands glasses be returned and threatens to run the seller out of town. A man named Mr. Fine Ridge arrives as the group prepares to confront the seller.

“All right, Cedric. May as well start stacking them up again.” 22:54 · “Whereabouts did you get them spectacles? From a fella right over there on the corner.” 23:00 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 23:18 (passage 22:43–24:04); US record: No renewal found

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