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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 67 · permalink

Rocky outcrop

43:27–43:54 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 43:3543:35Frame at 43:4543:45Frame at 43:5043:50

Play from 43:27 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 22 · shots 153–155. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
rocky_outcrop (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing checkered shirt and vest, dark hat visible
  • man wearing dark shirt and hat, standing center visible
  • man with light hair, wearing white shirt and suspenders visible, audible
Also said
“Oh, cut the comedy. We came by the store and seen the ransom note. That was for the joke, too. He was gonna give us ten bucks and shake somebody down for a grand.” 43:38 · “Well, if anybody's going to get it, we're going to get the grand.” 43:53
Seen
rocky wall [frame:1], hat [frame:1], vest [frame:1], suspenders [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and comedic; themes: deception, failed schemes, male camaraderie; style notes: medium close-up, high-contrast lighting, static framing

Three men stand outdoors near a rocky wall, discussing a failed joke involving a fake kidnapping and ransom. One man explains the plan while the others react, with dialogue confirming the scheme was meant to make a hero and extract money.

“Well, you fellas has got this all wrong. It was just a joke.” 43:27 · “Well, the joke ain't gonna work, son.” 43:31 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 43:35 (passage 43:27–43:54); US record: No renewal found

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