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Little Men · Beat 11 · permalink

Private office

5:11–5:35 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 5:215:21Frame at 5:345:34

Play from 5:11 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 7 · shots 27–28. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, dark suit, bow tie, serious expression visible
  • man, light coat, bowler hat, holding baby, speaking visible, audible
  • baby, in light clothing, in crib visible
Seen happening
  • Man in bowler hat holds a baby and speaks. [frame:1]
  • Baby is shown in a crib, moving slightly. [frame:2]
Also said
“Ah, it must know that I'm leaving for good. Well, what do you want, honey?” 5:29
Seen
baby in crib, bowler hat, suit and bow tie, baby bottle, office desk and chair
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and sentimental; themes: departure, fatherhood, money and obligation; style notes: medium shot framing, high-contrast studio lighting, static camera

Two men stand in an interior room; one holds a baby while speaking. A separate shot shows a baby in a crib. The transcript includes dialogue about money, leaving, and a baby reacting to departure.

“Here's 500. Take the kid with you. No, no. That ain't the way lefty wanted it. Take the money anyway.” 5:12 · “Now, I'm going to leave you here with your joy.” 5:23 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 5:21 (passage 5:11–5:35); US record: No renewal found

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