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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 55 · permalink

Field

34:19–34:59 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 34:3034:30Frame at 34:5134:51

Play from 34:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 17 · shots 129–130. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a hat and dark coat, crouching beside train tracks visible
  • Cedric (named at t:34:19): man wearing a hat and suit, hiding behind bushes visible, audible
  • Abner (named at t:34:37): unseen speaker audible
  • Granny (named at t:34:37): unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A man crouches beside train tracks while another hides behind bushes. [frame:1]
  • Two men are seen in profile, one looking up, both partially obscured by bushes. [frame:2]
Also said
“Now don't worry a bit, Abner. I'll be right back to rescue you as quick as the train comes. You sit here behind this bush, Cedric, so nobody can see you. Yes, boss. Aye, Granny, this is gonna make the biggest hero out of me Pine Ridge has ever seen. It is, huh? Oh, yeah. And if it's worth every cent I'm paying you to help me, Cedric. Well, when am I gonna get the 50 cents? Now, we'll get around to that later.” 34:37
Seen
train tracks, bushes, hats, suits
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and comedic; themes: hiding, rescue, bribery, heroism; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, characters partially obscured by foliage

Two men are hiding in a field near train tracks; one is crouched beside the tracks while the other hides behind bushes. One man, called Cedric, is instructed to stay hidden while the other promises to return after a train arrives.

“I'm gonna have you arrested for this. Don't pay no attention to him, Cedric. Don't, Cedric. That tickles, Buffy. Don't do that, Cedric. Tell, tell. Shut up. Somebody might hear you.” 34:19 · “Well, that's the reason I'm hollering "Hell!" So they will!” 34:29 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 34:30 (passage 34:19–34:59); US record: No renewal found

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