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Little Men · Beat 1 · permalink

Vehicle interior

0:00–0:28 Released 1940; registered 1941

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 0:140:14

Play from 0:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: start of film. Sequence 1 · shots 0–0. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Jo (named at frame:1): woman wearing a wide-brimmed hat, dark dress with white collar, holding a bundle visible
Seen
bundle [frame:1], wide-brimmed hat [frame:1], on-screen text: 'with KAY FRANCIS as JO' [frame:1]
On screen
with KAY FRANCIS as JO
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: calm; themes: period drama, character introduction; style notes: medium close-up, black-and-white, studio lighting, period costume

A woman in period costume sits in a vehicle holding a bundle, with on-screen text identifying her as Jo. The setting appears to be outdoors near a wooden building.

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 Little Men (1940) at 0:14 (passage 0:00–0:28); US record: No renewal found

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