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31:27–32:00 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 31:3131:31Frame at 31:3931:39Frame at 31:5231:52

Play from 31:27 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 41 · shots 258–260. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • older man, wearing a top hat, dark overcoat, and holding a cane visible, audible
  • Danny (named at t:31:31): younger boy, wearing a bowler hat and a suit visible, audible
Seen happening
  • An older man places his arm around a boy’s shoulder. [frame:1]
  • The older man speaks to the boy while standing beside him. [frame:2]
  • The older man and boy sit together on a wooden structure, looking down. [frame:3]
Also said
“Thank me for putting you here. You don't believe that yourself. How do you expect me to swallow it?” 31:39 · “Do you think I'd do a thing like this if I didn't know it was for your own good?” 31:53
Seen
top hat [frame:1], bowler hat [frame:1], cane [frame:2], wooden fence [frame:1], wooden structure [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber and earnest; themes: intergenerational care, reluctance and reassurance, rural setting as backdrop for personal dialogue; style notes: medium shots, static framing, natural lighting with shadows suggesting late afternoon, costumes and props period-appropriate for late 19th century

An older man in a top hat and a younger boy in a bowler hat stand together outdoors; the older man speaks to the boy, who appears skeptical. The setting includes wooden structures and foliage, suggesting a rural or park-like area.

“You'll get over that, Danny.” 31:31 · “It's all strange to you right now.” 31:34 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 Little Men (1940) at 31:31 (passage 31:27–32:00); US record: No renewal found

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