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Bashful Bachelor · Beat 99 · permalink

Shop

58:44–59:55 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 59:2059:20

Play from 58:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 33 · shots 238–238. 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
  • man, dark suit, light hair, middle-aged, standing left visible
  • woman, light blouse, mid-length hair, middle-aged, standing center visible
  • Abner (named at t:59:04): man, dark suit, light hair, middle-aged, standing right visible, audible
Also said
“But if you two think you can get rid of me as easy as this, just because my uncle got mad at me...” 59:10 · “If anybody around here is going to pick on Lum, it's going to be me.” 59:38
Seen
shelves with merchandise [frame:1], ropes or ropes on floor [t:59:42]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but humorous; themes: friendship, defiance, betting, family conflict; style notes: medium shot, static framing, studio lighting, black-and-white, period costumes

Three people stand in a shop, speaking to each other; one man mentions a bet and standing up to someone named Skimp, while another defends Lum and invokes the 'three musketeers.' The setting appears to be a retail space with shelves and merchandise visible.

“Of course we're crazy.” 58:44 · “I've got it, Bo Abner.” 59:04 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 59:20 (passage 58:44–59:55); US record: No renewal found

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