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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 42 · permalink

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27:23–27:54 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 27:3327:33Frame at 27:4827:48

Play from 27:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 15 · shots 96–97. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(shop, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, balding, glasses, dark suit, light shirt visible, audible
  • Abner (named at t:27:32): older man, receding hair, mustache, vest, tie, light shirt visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man hands a paper to another man. [frame:1]
  • The man in the vest holds the paper and looks at the other man. [frame:2]
Also said
“You don't have to write so big. I ain't hard to hear.” 27:42 · “For taters.” 27:47
Seen
paper, shelves with jars, arched window
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted, conversational; themes: comedy, everyday life, misunderstanding; style notes: medium two-shot, static camera, studio lighting, black and white, period costume

Two men are in a shop, one handing a paper to the other while speaking about eyes and asthma. One man mentions writing for 'taters'.

“Oh, you got a pair, too, huh? Yeah, I had to get them, Abner. I had to get them.” 27:32 · “Well, I never know your eyes would give me trouble. Oh, yeah. He says that might be what's been causing my asthma.” 27:36 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 27:33 (passage 27:23–27:54); US record: No renewal found

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