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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 74 · permalink

Sidewalk

47:14–47:53 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 47:2847:28Frame at 47:4647:46Frame at 47:5247:52

Play from 47:14 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 25 · shots 172–174. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
Period
1940s evidence: film release date 1942
People
  • woman, wearing a hat and dark dress, carrying a wicker basket visible, audible
  • Mr. Edwards (named at t:47:31): man, middle-aged, wearing a suit and tie, has graying hair visible, audible
Also said
“The one with the bullet hole in it.” 47:46 · “Why, of course you can have it.” 47:49
Seen
wicker basket, hat with bullet hole, wooden barrels, wooden structure
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: polite and slightly nostalgic; themes: gratitude, memento, gentlemanly exchange; style notes: black-and-white, medium two-shot, low-key lighting emphasizing faces, period costume

A woman holding a basket asks a man for his hat with a bullet hole, which he agrees to give her. The interaction takes place outdoors at night near barrels and a wooden structure.

“And I'd like to tell you again how much I admired your conduct yesterday.” 47:26 · “I wonder if I could have your hat.” 47:44 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 47:28 (passage 47:14–47:53); US record: No renewal found

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