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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 5 · permalink

Living room

1:52–2:59 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 2:182:18Frame at 2:522:52

Play from 1:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 3 · shots 12–13. 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:1:57): older man, wearing suit and tie, thinning hair visible, audible
  • Miss Bradbury (named at t:2:28): woman, dark hair, wearing dark dress with white collar visible, audible
  • man, wearing hat and dark coat visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand facing each other in conversation. [frame:1]
  • A man in a hat and coat stands at a doorway, looking back. [frame:2]
Also said
“Well, good night, Miss Gerarding. Oh, Miss Bradbury.” 2:28 · “I trust you'll draw your sword in her defense. Why, you bet your life I'll draw my sword in her defense.” 2:46
Seen
lamp with patterned shade, wooden door with glass panels, hat, coat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted and flirtatious; themes: romantic banter, chivalric fantasy, nostalgic memory; style notes: medium shots, soft lighting, static camera, period costume

A man and a woman converse in a dimly lit room; the man is later seen at a doorway. The dialogue references a black knight, New Year's Eve 1935, and a hypothetical damsel in distress.

“You know, the black knight looks something like you, Mr. Edwards.” 1:57 · “You stayed till 12, remember? Oh, yeah. New Year's Eve.” 2:15 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 2:18 (passage 1:52–2:59); US record: No renewal found

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