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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 83 · permalink

Sidewalk

51:34–52:31 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 51:3951:39Frame at 51:4351:43Frame at 51:5751:57Frame at 52:2152:21

Play from 51:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 30 · shots 192–195. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and fedora, medium build, appears middle-aged visible, audible
  • Miss Geraldine (named at t:52:01): woman in white coat with dark trim, blonde hair, heels, appears young adult visible
  • man in suit and tie, glasses, appears middle-aged visible
Seen happening
  • A man approaches a woman standing on a wooden platform. [frame:2]
  • The man and woman stand together while another man looks on. [frame:3]
  • The man in the hat gestures while speaking to the woman. [frame:4]
Also said
“Teller's with the compliments of Mr. Andrews.” 52:17 · “Here, I expect I better get back in the store. I don't want Miss Geraldine to see me stand out here watching her.” 52:27
Seen
wooden platform [frame:1], barrels [frame:1], note [frame:3], fedora hat [frame:1], white coat with dark trim [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted, slightly awkward; themes: romantic pursuit, social awkwardness, class signaling through attire; style notes: medium shots, static camera, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s B-films, staged blocking

A man in a suit and hat delivers a note to a woman in a white coat standing on a wooden platform; another man observes from nearby. The speaker mentions delivering a note with compliments from Mr. Andrews and expresses concern about being seen watching the woman.

“The honor's Miss Geraldine now.” 52:01 · “Or over in front of the millinery store.” 52:07 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 51:39 (passage 51:34–52:31); US record: No renewal found

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