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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 38 · permalink

Shed

24:04–25:48 Registered 1942

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Frame at 24:5624:56

Play from 24:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 87–87. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
shed (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, light hair, medium build visible, audible
  • Spar (named at t:24:12): not visible audible, mentioned
  • Lombard (named at t:24:23): not visible audible, mentioned
  • Cedric (named at t:24:57): not visible audible, mentioned
  • Peabody (named at t:25:20): not visible audible, mentioned
  • Margie (named at t:25:31): not visible audible, mentioned
  • Albert (named at t:25:31): not visible audible, mentioned
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit walks toward a horse in a shed. [frame:1]
Also said
“He's back here in the shed. Come on back.” 24:42 · “Oh, howdy, Margie. Hello, Albert. Hello.” 25:31
Seen
horse [frame:1], suit [frame:1], shed interior with tools and barrels [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual and conversational, with undertones of skepticism about the horse's value; themes: horse trading, rural life, skepticism vs. optimism; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white, studio lighting, minimal set dressing suggesting a rustic shed

A man in a suit walks toward a horse in a shed while conversing about the horse's condition and potential for a fair competition. The dialogue includes references to teeth filing and opinions on the horse's value.

“Well, good morning out there.” 24:06 · “Morning, Spar.” 24:12 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 24:56 (passage 24:04–25:48); US record: No renewal found

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