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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 92 · permalink

Shop

55:18–55:40 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 55:2055:20Frame at 55:2355:23Frame at 55:3755:37Frame at 55:3955:39

Play from 55:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 33 · shots 216–220. 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
  • older man, white hair, glasses, dark suit, seated behind counter visible
  • Marjorie (named at t:55:18): woman, light-colored blouse, curly hair, standing visible, audible
  • man, dark suit, mustache, standing visible
Seen happening
  • Marjorie reaches up and removes the glasses from Edward's face. [frame:4]
Also said
“He says the Witter Abernathy's got an awful good breach of promise case against me.” 55:30 · “Lum, Edward, you need a guardian. And you know whose fault it was. Lum, Edward, give me those glasses. Wait a minute. What are you going to do with them? I'll kill you.” 55:34
Seen
canned goods, scale, glasses, counter
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, confrontational; themes: legal trouble, family conflict, gender roles; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static camera, cluttered set design

A woman enters a shop and speaks with a man behind the counter; she removes his glasses during a tense conversation about a legal case. The setting is a cluttered shop with shelves of canned goods and a scale visible.

“Right over this way. Lord Price is in town. Right over this way. Oh, come in, Marjorie.” 55:18 · “Oh, I just had a talk with Judge Akins.” 55:28 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 55:20 (passage 55:18–55:40); US record: No renewal found

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