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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 88 · permalink

Shop

53:35–53:55 Registered 1942

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Frame at 53:4553:45

Play from 53:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 33 · shots 206–206. 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 in dark suit, standing behind counter visible, audible
  • Mr. Peabody (named at t:53:49): man in dark suit, standing in front of counter, facing p1 visible, audible
  • woman in patterned dress, standing to right of p2 visible
Seen happening
  • Two men face each other across a store counter while a woman stands nearby. [frame:1]
Also said
“You've ruined my life, that's what you did.” 53:52 · “Ruined my life.” 53:54
Seen
counter with goods [frame:1], hanging produce (onions or garlic) [frame:1], sign reading 'FRESH VEGETABLES' (partially visible) [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict, personal blame, commercial space as site of dispute; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, staged composition typical of 1940s studio films

A man in a suit confronts another man across a store counter while a woman stands nearby; dialogue suggests a dispute over store layout and personal blame. No names are established for the individuals beyond 'Mr. Peabody' mentioned in speech.

“I think Granny's this will settle any argument about where the middle of the store is at.” 53:38 · “I'd rather not discuss it with you, Mr. Peabody.” 53:49 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 53:45 (passage 53:35–53:55); US record: No renewal found

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