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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 59 · permalink

Private office

36:30–37:36 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 37:0337:03

Play from 36:30 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 18 · shots 138–138. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Admiral (named at t:36:48): older man, white hair, wearing dark suit and tie, standing visible, audible
  • Edna (named at t:37:02): younger man, wearing fedora and dark overcoat, standing visible, audible
Also said
“What about that promise of yours?” 37:02 · “Now, tonight I'll get a ladder and I'll come over to your house and get you out of the bedroom window.” 37:30
Seen
fedora hat, dark overcoat, suit and tie, wooden furniture
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: deception, reluctant partnership, absurd plan; style notes: medium two-shot, high-contrast lighting, static framing, period costume

Two men argue in a dimly lit interior about a plan involving a kidnapping and a ladder to a bedroom window. One man, called 'Admiral,' resists the idea while the other, named Edna, insists on proceeding despite past failures.

“Admiral, I've got a great idea.” 36:48 · “you're gonna be kidnapped.” 36:53 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 37:03 (passage 36:30–37:36); US record: No renewal found

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