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26:10–26:32 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 26:1526:15Frame at 26:2626:26

Play from 26:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 15 · shots 90–91. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • Woman with styled blonde hair, wearing a dark dress with a high neckline. visible
  • Older man with white hair and glasses, wearing a dark suit and vest. visible, audible
  • Man wearing a dark cowboy hat, light shirt, and dark jacket with a bow tie. visible
Seen happening
  • The woman and older man are standing together, facing each other. [frame:1]
  • The man in the cowboy hat joins the conversation, standing to the left of the woman. [frame:2]
Also said
“Why, that William Stark is a fine stain horse place.” 26:26 · “Why, that critter can't run a leap.” 26:30
Seen
cowboy hat [frame:2], glasses [frame:1], suit and vest [frame:1], dark dress [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted and conversational; themes: humor, horse racing, family dynamics; style notes: medium close-up shots, studio lighting, black and white film, static camera

A woman and an older man in a suit are shown in conversation, then joined by a man in a cowboy hat. The dialogue references horses and a place called Frank Williams near Hot Springs.

“Long went so high when I swapped for him, I might just call him Skyrocket. Ha, ha, ha.” 26:13 · “Doesn't it look to you, Uncle, as if you might have been foaled at the Frank Williams place near Hot Springs? Oh, ridiculous.” 26:20 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 26:15 (passage 26:10–26:32); US record: No renewal found

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