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Little Men · Beat 102 · permalink

Street

32:45–32:52 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 32:4732:47Frame at 32:5132:51

Play from 32:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 41 · shots 263–264. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • young boy, wearing a bowler hat, dark suit, white collar, and tie visible, audible
  • older man, wearing a top hat, dark coat, and bow tie visible, audible
Seen
bowler hat, top hat, dark suit with white collar, bow tie
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: conflict, separation, youth versus authority; style notes: medium close-up shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal attire suggests period setting

A young boy in a bowler hat and a man in a top hat face each other in an outdoor setting. The boy speaks angrily, saying he does not care if he ever sees the man again, and the man responds by confirming their parting.

“If you leave me here, I don't care if I ever see you again.” 32:46 · “So that's the way we part? That's it.” 32:50 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 32:47 (passage 32:45–32:52); US record: No renewal found

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