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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 57 · permalink

Field

35:23–35:36 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 35:2535:25Frame at 35:3135:31

Play from 35:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 17 · shots 135–136. 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 lying on ground, wearing dark clothes visible
  • Cedric (named at t:35:23): man in wide-brimmed hat, visible in bushes visible
  • Mr. Love (named at t:35:23): man in hat, pointing upward, visible in bushes visible, audible
  • Adner (named at t:35:23): unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A man is lying on railroad tracks as a train approaches in the distance. [frame:1]
  • Two men in hats are hiding in bushes, one pointing upward. [frame:2]
Also said
“This is the greatest idea I ever had in my life, Adner.” 35:23 · “This ought to make a hero out of me.” 35:23
Seen
railroad tracks [frame:1], train [frame:1], telephone pole [frame:1], bushes [frame:2], hats [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and comedic; themes: dangerous stunts, comedy of errors, heroic pretense; style notes: black-and-white, wide shot for action, medium shot for character reaction, high-contrast lighting

A man lies on railroad tracks as a train approaches; two men in hats hide in bushes nearby. One man is urged to climb a pole for safety while another is told to stay put, and someone exclaims the plan is their greatest idea.

“Love! Hurry up, love! There comes a chain, love! Hurry up!” 35:23 · “Oh, Mr. Love, you better get on up there. Well, you stay right here, Cedric.” 35:23 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 35:25 (passage 35:23–35:36); US record: No renewal found

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