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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 4 · permalink

Living room

1:37–1:52 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 1:391:39Frame at 1:421:42Frame at 1:451:45Frame at 1:491:49

Play from 1:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 3 · shots 8–11. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Mr. Edwards (named at t:1:44): man with mustache, wearing suit and tie visible, audible
  • Miss Geraldine (named at t:1:49): woman with curly hair, wearing dark dress with white lace collar visible, audible
Also said
“Why, this dad blamed Helmet, I...” 1:46 · “Oh, excuse me, Miss Geraldine.” 1:49
Seen
helmet [t:1:46], suit and tie [frame:1], lace collar [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comic tension; themes: miscommunication, social formality; style notes: close-up shots, high-contrast lighting, static framing

A man with a mustache and a woman in a lace collar are shown in alternating close-ups. The man speaks about needing to fix a helmet, and the woman interrupts him, addressing him as Mr. Edwards.

“Well, gotta get it fixed.” 1:38 · “You gotta get what fixed, Mr. Edwards?” 1:44 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 1:39 (passage 1:37–1:52); US record: No renewal found

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