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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 87 · permalink

Sidewalk

53:30–53:35 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 53:3353:33

Play from 53:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 32 · shots 205–205. 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
  • older man, military uniform with shoulder insignia, stern expression visible
  • woman, back to camera, light dress with dark trim, dark hair visible
  • woman, patterned dress, flower in hair, looking up at p4 visible
  • man, dark fedora, dark suit, kissing p3 on cheek visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a fedora kisses a woman on the cheek. [frame:1]
Seen
fedora, military uniform, patterned dress, flower in hair
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: surprised or startled; themes: social interaction, unexpected gesture; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting typical of 1940s studio production

A man in uniform and two civilians react to a woman in a patterned dress who is being kissed on the cheek by a man in a fedora. The scene occurs outdoors against a wooden building facade.

“Why, you've done it.” 53:31 · “Oh!” 53:33 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 53:33 (passage 53:30–53:35); US record: No renewal found

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