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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 75 · permalink

Private office

47:53–48:10 Registered 1942

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Frame at 47:5647:56Frame at 48:0548:05

Play from 47:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 26 · shots 175–176. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, middle-aged, wearing a hat and dark coat with patterned collar visible, audible
  • man, older, with glasses and mustache, wearing suit and tie visible, audible
Also said
“I'll come by tonight and set a sparrow.” 48:04 · “And I'll bring the hat.” 48:08
Seen
{'item': 'hat', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'suit and tie', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'glasses', 'frame': 2}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: polite and slightly tentative; themes: social invitation, unspoken expectations; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static framing

A woman invites a man to visit her that evening, and he agrees. She mentions bringing a hat, and he confirms he will come by tonight.

“Do come and see me. You don't have to wait for the usual Wednesday night, do you?” 47:55 · “No, I don't reckon I do.” 48:00 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 47:56 (passage 47:53–48:10); US record: No renewal found

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