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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 82 · permalink

Shop

51:09–51:34 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 51:2251:22

Play from 51:09 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 29 · shots 191–191. 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
  • Abner Peabody (named at t:51:21): older man, dark suit, light hair, thin build visible, audible
  • younger man, dark suit, tie, medium build visible, audible
  • woman, light-colored dress with dark trim, blonde hair, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • Three people stand in a shop, two men facing each other while a woman stands beside them. [frame:1]
Also said
“All right, Dad, blame it. I'll hand it to her. Give it to me.” 51:25 · “Well, wait a minute. Let's see if she's gone home yet. She may still be down on the street.” 51:29
Seen
shelves with canned goods [frame:1], counter or display case [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, confrontational; themes: family conflict, gratitude and obligation, social propriety; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, three-shot composition, black-and-white film

Three people stand in a shop with shelves of goods behind them; one man speaks to another while a woman listens. The transcript includes a character named Abner Peabody being scolded and a suggestion to check if someone is still on the street.

“Granny's.” 51:14 · “Why, Abner Peabody, you ought to be ashamed of yourself.” 51:21 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 51:22 (passage 51:09–51:34); US record: No renewal found

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