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42:45–43:27 Registered 1942

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Frame at 42:5942:59Frame at 43:2043:20

Play from 42:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 21 · shots 151–152. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a hat and coat, standing, holding a stick or pole visible
  • man wearing a hat, lying on the ground visible
  • unspecified, possibly off-screen audible
Seen happening
  • A man stands near a wooden structure holding a stick. [frame:1]
  • A man lies on the ground wearing a hat. [frame:2]
Also said
“All right, men. Follow Lump. Yeah, follow me.” 43:16 · “Well, you fellas has got this all wrong. It was just a joke.” 43:27
Seen
wooden structure [frame:1], stick or pole [frame:1], hat [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but comedic; themes: misunderstanding, comedy of errors, false alarm; style notes: black-and-white, low-contrast lighting, medium shots, static camera

Two men are seen in an outdoor setting near a wooden structure; one is standing while the other is on the ground. A voice claims the situation was a joke, and someone is told to follow 'Lump.'

“What makes you think they came this way? Well, I just figured it out, sure.” 43:05 · “I just figured if I was a kidnapper, whereabouts would I take him?” 43:10 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 42:59 (passage 42:45–43:27); US record: No renewal found

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