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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 43 · permalink

Shop

27:54–28:16 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 27:5527:55Frame at 27:5727:57Frame at 28:0528:05Frame at 28:1328:13

Play from 27:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 15 · shots 98–102. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
shop (shop, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man in dark vest and light shirt, holding papers visible
  • older man with white hair, in dark suit visible
  • Frederick (named at t:27:59): man in hat and shirt, entering through door visible
  • man in background, near shelves visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a hat enters the shop through a door. [frame:2]
  • A man in the background is visible near shelves in a long room. [frame:3]
  • The interior of the shop is shown again, with people present. [frame:4]
Also said
“Oh, there you are. Way over yonder. What's the matter to him?” 28:06 · “Well, I believe Cedric bought some glasses, too.” 28:11
Seen
bunch of bananas, vending machine labeled 'GARDE', shelves with jars and goods, wooden barrels, ceiling fan
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, conversational; themes: social interaction in a retail setting, character introduction through dialogue; style notes: black-and-white, medium and wide shots, studio lighting, static camera

A man enters a store and is greeted by another man; a third man is visible in the background. The transcript includes a greeting to 'Frederick' and a comment about 'Cedric' buying glasses.

“Oh, come in, Frederick.” 27:59 · “Mom?” 28:02 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 27:55 (passage 27:54–28:16); US record: No renewal found

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