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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 9 · permalink

Shop

4:10–4:36 Registered 1942

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Frame at 4:234:23

Play from 4:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 6 · shots 19–19. 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
  • woman, light-colored dress, holding a rabbit visible
  • man, dark suit, standing left visible
  • man, dark suit and hat, standing right visible
Also said
“And what does Mr. Zilbeck think about the rabbits?” 4:31 · “Oh, she feels like Lama reckoned it ought to quit trading too. But you have quit, haven't you?” 4:33
Seen
rabbit [frame:1], shelves with merchandise [frame:1], counter or table with items [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light comedic tension; themes: domestic humor, misunderstanding, rural or small-town life; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, static framing, period costumes

A woman holds a rabbit while two men stand nearby in what appears to be a shop; dialogue references building a house, rabbits, and a Mr. Zilbeck. No names are visually confirmed, and the setting is interior with shelves and merchandise visible.

“Get back now. Get back. I'll have your house six-burdy in a minute.” 4:10 · “Well... Good morning, Abner. Morning, Margie. Good morning, Mr. Bill Beck. What you got there? Want him a rabbit? This young man was running away. Well, ask those things, if I'll build a house for him, they outgrow it. Now get back in and ask your mama where you're going.” 4:17 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 4:23 (passage 4:10–4:36); US record: No renewal found

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