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Little Men · Beat 108 · permalink

Garden

34:07–34:28 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 34:0834:08Frame at 34:1734:17Frame at 34:2634:26

Play from 34:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 273–275. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
garden (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • boy in suspenders, visible back and side in frame:1, later front in frame:3 visible
  • girl with curly hair and light dress, visible in frame:1 and frame:3 visible
  • boy in bowler hat and suit, holding a box, visible in frame:2 visible
  • man in dark suit and bow tie, visible in frame:2 visible
  • Aunt Jo (named at t:34:23): woman in patterned dress, gesturing toward boy in frame:2 visible, audible
  • boy in light shirt, visible in frame:3, washing hands visible
  • girl in dark dress with white collar, visible in frame:3 visible
  • boy in light shirt, visible in frame:3, washing hands visible
  • boy in light shirt, visible in frame:3, washing hands visible
Seen happening
  • Children gather around a table with buckets outdoors. [frame:1]
  • A woman speaks to a boy in a bowler hat while a man stands beside them. [frame:2]
  • Children wash their hands at a table outdoors. [frame:3]
Also said
“Now we're going to do everything to make you happy here. For just one big family.” 34:15 · “And you'll make friends, too. A man. Coming, Aunt Jo.” 34:23
Seen
wooden buckets [frame:1], table [frame:3], bowler hat [frame:2], suitcase or box [frame:2], patterned dress [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: calm and reassuring; themes: school adjustment, family-like community, childhood routines; style notes: medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, group composition emphasizing interaction

A group of children and adults are gathered outdoors near a table with buckets, preparing to wash up. A woman speaks to a boy, reassuring him about making friends at school, while another boy responds to being called by his aunt.

“Danny.” 34:11 · “That's the suffer call.” 34:12 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 34:08 (passage 34:07–34:28); US record: No renewal found

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