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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 93 · permalink

Goods store

55:40–56:15 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 55:4855:48Frame at 55:5755:57Frame at 56:0756:07Frame at 56:1256:12

Play from 55:40 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 221–225. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
goods store (shop, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman with curled hair, wearing a light-colored blouse and dark skirt visible, audible
  • older man with white hair and glasses, wearing a dark suit and tie visible, audible
  • man with mustache, wearing a dark suit and tie visible, audible
  • Squire (named at t:56:02): man wearing a cowboy hat, dark jacket, and bow tie visible
Seen happening
  • A woman hands glasses to a man at a counter. [frame:1]
  • A man with a mustache looks alarmed. [frame:2]
  • A man in a cowboy hat enters the store. [frame:3]
  • The woman and the man with glasses talk across the counter. [frame:4]
Also said
“Why, that's willful destruction of property. I know it is.” 55:57 · “Uh-oh. Right away this way, squire. Lowest prices in town.” 56:02
Seen
glasses, counter, shelves with canned goods, cowboy hat, price sign
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comic tension; themes: mischievous behavior, consumerism, authority vs. chaos; style notes: medium shots, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s studio films

A woman and a man interact at a counter in a goods store while another man in a cowboy hat enters. The dialogue suggests a dispute over glasses and a warning against causing trouble.

“Come on over here in the goods store, Margie. Give me these new glasses, Ed. Well, wait a minute. I'm just getting used to them. Come on. There's nothing wrong with your old ones.” 55:43 · “Well, now, be careful with them. I'll be careful, all right. You two get in enough trouble without having these glasses to help you.” 55:51 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 55:48 (passage 55:40–56:15); US record: No renewal found

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