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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 89 · permalink

Shop

53:55–54:36 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 54:0054:00Frame at 54:1154:11Frame at 54:1954:19Frame at 54:2854:28

Play from 53:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 33 · shots 207–210. 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, mid-adult visible, audible
  • Lum (named at t:54:23): man in dark suit and hat, seated, older, wearing bow tie visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, standing, partially visible visible
  • man in hat, behind counter, visible in frame:2 visible
Also said
“Well, you divided the store again, have you? Yes, sir. Divided her up, Jed.” 54:18 · “Uh, Granny's hit final this time, Judge.” 54:30
Seen
bananas hanging from ceiling, display of canned goods, bowler hat, counter with produce
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and comedic; themes: conflict over property, commercial rivalry, absurdity of division; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static camera, studio lighting

Two men argue over dividing a store into sections while a third man, Lum, is mentioned and later seen. The conversation includes a dispute over bananas and a reference to a judge and Granny.

“Well, I'll never make it. I've got my half the dry goods on this side of the store, and you've got your half the groceries over there. The store's equal divided now, and I'll appreciate it if you'll stay on your own side.” 53:55 · “Uh-oh. Right over this way. Peabody sells it for land. Bananas for better merchandise. Bananas, 25 cents a dozen. Two dozen per quarter. Three dozen per quarter. Four dozen. Five dozen. Wait a minute.” 54:06 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 54:00 (passage 53:55–54:36); US record: No renewal found

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