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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 91 · permalink

Shop

54:53–55:18 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 55:0655:06

Play from 54:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 33 · shots 215–215. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(shop, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Judge Egan (named at t:55:16): man in dark suit, tie, light shirt, middle-aged, medium build visible, audible
  • Michael (named at t:55:16): man in dark suit, bow tie, fedora hat, older, slender build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand facing each other in a shop, one pointing at the other. [frame:1]
Also said
“See if you can't get that note back, Judge. I'm going down to see her now.” 55:09 · “Hello, Judge Egan. Hello, Michael.” 55:16
Seen
shelves with jars and bottles [frame:1], fedora hat [frame:1], suit and bow tie [frame:1], suit and tie [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: legal peril, marriage as transaction, negotiation under pressure; style notes: medium two-shot, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static camera, period costumes

Two men in suits converse in a shop; one is identified as Judge Egan. The dialogue concerns retrieving a note from a widow to avoid legal consequences.

“I'm afraid if you don't marry her, she can take everything you've got.” 54:53 · “There's one chance.” 55:01 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 55:06 (passage 54:53–55:18); US record: No renewal found

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