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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 77 · permalink

Porch

48:15–48:26 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 48:2048:20

Play from 48:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 28 · shots 178–178. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
porch (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Seen
barrels [frame:1], wooden bench [frame:1], wooden platform [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dark and still; style notes: low-key lighting, static composition, wide shot showing empty space

A single frame shows a dimly lit wooden porch or platform with barrels and a bench; no people are visible. The transcript line is incomplete and offers no contextual information.

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 48:20 (passage 48:15–48:26); US record: No renewal found

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