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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 97 · permalink

Shop

58:09–58:25 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 58:1758:17

Play from 58:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 33 · shots 235–235. 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 left visible
  • man in dark suit and hat, standing center-left visible
  • woman in light dress, standing center visible
  • Peabody (named at t:58:17): older man in dark suit, facing others, right visible, audible
Also said
“You were bluffing, Peabody.” 58:17 · “I'll take that little bet, too.” 58:22
Seen
barrels, shelves with goods, counter
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: gambling, personal stakes, conflict over responsibility; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s studio films

Four people stand in a store during a tense conversation about a bet involving a half-share of the store and sending someone named Margie to an art institution. One man accuses another of bluffing and challenges him to call the bet.

“I'll bet you my half of the store.” 58:09 · “Again, you sending Margie to that art institution she's been wanting to go to.” 58:12 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 58:17 (passage 58:09–58:25); US record: No renewal found

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