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Little Men · Beat 103 · permalink

Sidewalk

32:52–33:09 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 32:5832:58Frame at 33:0533:05Frame at 33:0733:07

Play from 32:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 41 · shots 265–267. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, top hat, and bow tie, standing, middle-aged visible
  • man in light coat and hat, carrying two suitcases, walking away visible
  • man in dark hat and coat, seated on bench, arms crossed visible
Seen happening
  • A man carrying suitcases walks away from another man on a dirt road. [frame:1]
  • A man in a top hat stands facing the camera, with another man seated behind him. [frame:2]
  • A man walks toward a house behind a wooden fence. [frame:3]
Seen
suitcases, top hat, wooden fence, bench
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or somber; themes: departure, father-son interaction, rural setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, period costume

A man in a suit and top hat stands on a dirt road as another man carrying suitcases walks away from him toward a house. A third man sits in the background on a bench. The scene is outdoors, with a wooden fence and trees visible.

“Damn.” 33:00 · “Son.” 33:05 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 32:58 (passage 32:52–33:09); US record: No renewal found

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