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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 78 · permalink

Shop

48:26–48:52 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 48:3848:38Frame at 48:5148:51

Play from 48:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 29 · shots 179–180. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
shop (shop, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, middle-aged, wearing a dark suit and tie, thinning hair, mustache visible, audible
  • person seated at table, light-colored hair, wearing a patterned top, partially visible visible
  • older man, seated at table, balding, wearing dark jacket visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit stands near a table where two others are seated. [frame:1]
  • Close-up of the man in the suit, looking concerned. [frame:2]
Also said
“Have you popped the question yet, love?” 48:48 · “Well... That's the part that's got me stuck.” 48:50
Seen
table [frame:1], chairs [frame:1], shelves [frame:1], window [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comedic and slightly anxious; themes: marriage, social awkwardness, humor; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots transitioning to close-up, studio lighting, static camera

A man in a suit stands near a table where two others are seated; he speaks about marriage and being stuck on proposing. The setting appears to be an indoor public space with shelves and a window visible.

“Great is it a fine morning.” 48:40 · “Mighty funny when the feller don't know when he's well off and goes and sticks his head into matrimony, ain't it?” 48:42 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 48:38 (passage 48:26–48:52); US record: No renewal found

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