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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 70 · permalink

Field

45:08–45:32 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 45:1345:13Frame at 45:1845:18Frame at 45:2545:25Frame at 45:3045:30

Play from 45:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 22 · shots 161–165. 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, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • man in dark coat and hat, running visible
  • man in dark coat and hat, bent over after being hit visible
  • group of men in hats, some holding rifles visible
  • Abner (named at t:45:10): unseen speaker audible
  • Blum (named at t:45:15): unseen speaker audible
  • Mom (named at t:45:21): unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A man runs across a field. [frame:1]
  • A man is struck by gunfire and falls forward. [frame:2]
  • A man stands in the field, facing away from the camera. [frame:3]
  • A group of men with rifles react to the situation. [frame:4]
Also said
“Mom, stay back. They're right over there by a tree.” 45:21 · “That thing looks like a young cannon. Hey, better not fire, man. You're liable to hit long.” 45:27
Seen
rifle [frame:4], hat [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], coat [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and chaotic; themes: conflict, miscommunication, danger in the open; style notes: black-and-white, handheld or shaky camera movement, low-key lighting with high contrast, wide shots for action, medium shots for group reactions

A man runs across a field as others shout warnings from a distance; one person is hit by gunfire, and a group of men with rifles is seen reacting. The scene takes place outdoors at night, with no visible indoor structures or artificial lighting.

“Tell them to keep shooting, Abner. That's going to sound good from down there below.” 45:10 · “Blum, don't come up here! Stay back, Blum! They'll kill you!” 45:15 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 45:13 (passage 45:08–45:32); US record: No renewal found

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