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Little Men · Beat 104 · permalink

Sidewalk

33:09–33:54 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 33:1233:12Frame at 33:3533:35

Play from 33:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 41 · shots 268–269. 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
  • Mage (named at t:33:09): man in dark suit, bow tie, and bowler hat, seated on bench visible, audible
  • man in light coat, bow tie, and top hat, standing with back to camera visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, bow tie, and bowler hat, laughing while holding cane visible, audible
  • unseen person addressed as 'Boss' mentioned
Seen happening
  • Two men in formal wear stand near a bench outdoors. [frame:1]
  • Two men sit side by side, one laughing broadly. [frame:2]
Also said
“I'm going to deposit his money in the bank, and in a few weeks I'll send him a check for it. Are you on the level? No.” 33:36 · “Mr. Mage, you're heading for the booby hatch just as sure as there's veal and chicken pie. Oh, there's that fox again. Go away, fox!” 33:41
Seen
bowler hat [frame:1], top hat [frame:1], cane [frame:2], bench [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and comedic; themes: money, deception, social class, madness; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal period costumes, outdoor setting

Two men in formal attire converse outdoors; one urges haste while the other laughs and mentions depositing money. A third man, called 'Boss,' is addressed off-screen.

“Come on, mage. You better get a move on.” 33:09 · “You got $2,500, ain't we? We better get out of here quick before the professor changes his mind and wants it back. He's going to get it back, Willie.” 33:28 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 33:12 (passage 33:09–33:54); US record: No renewal found

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