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Little Men · Beat 110 · permalink

Garden

34:42–35:00 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 34:4834:48Frame at 34:5834:58

Play from 34:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 44 · shots 277–278. 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
  • woman with curly hair, wearing a dress with short sleeves and a belt visible
  • boy wearing a bowler hat, dark jacket, and light shirt visible
  • multiple people seated at tables in a dining room, including adults and children visible
Seen happening
  • A woman and a boy stand outdoors near a tree. [frame:1]
  • A crowded dining room with people seated at tables. [frame:2]
Also said
“Is that supposed to be good?” 34:51 · “Well, lots that would like to.” 34:53
Seen
tree, dining tables, chairs, chandelier, curtains
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light and conversational; themes: social interaction, childhood dynamics, dining etiquette; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting in first frame, interior dining scene with chandelier and curtains suggesting a formal setting

A woman and a boy stand outdoors near a tree; later, a crowded dining room scene is shown with people seated at tables. Dialogue suggests a boy is being told to sit next to someone at a table, and he questions whether that is meant to be a good thing.

“All right now, run along.” 34:43 · “I'm sitting next to you at the table.” 34:50 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 34:48 (passage 34:42–35:00); US record: No renewal found

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