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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 8 · permalink

Shop

3:58–4:10 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 4:014:01Frame at 4:074:07

Play from 3:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 5 · shots 17–18. 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
  • Mr. Dilbert (named at t:3:59): older man, white hair, glasses, dark suit, light shirt visible, audible
  • Log (named at t:4:01): not visible audible, mentioned
Seen happening
  • Mr. Dilbert kneels beside a table with a white rabbit on it. [frame:1]
  • Mr. Dilbert leans forward, holding a tool, looking toward the right. [frame:2]
Also said
“I never knowed I was going to get into all this kind of trouble when I traded for that mama and papa rabbit.” 4:04
Seen
white rabbit [frame:1], wooden table [frame:1], tool (possibly hammer or mallet) [frame:2], chairs and shelves in background [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comic frustration; themes: miscommunication, unintended consequences; style notes: medium close-up, static camera, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, staged interior

A man in a suit kneels beside a table with a white rabbit, speaking to someone off-screen. He mentions trading for a mama and papa rabbit and complains that 'Log' doesn't understand him.

“No, sir, I tell you, Mr. Dilbert.” 3:59 · “Log just don't understand me. That's his trouble.” 4:01 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 4:01 (passage 3:58–4:10); US record: No renewal found

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