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Little Men · Beat 111 · permalink

Dining room

35:00–35:20 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 35:0535:05Frame at 35:1035:10Frame at 35:1335:13Frame at 35:1835:18

Play from 35:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 279–282. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
dining_room (dining room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and bow tie, mustache, seated at table visible, audible
  • woman in patterned dress with white collar, seated at table visible, audible
  • young man in suit with bow tie, seated at table visible, audible
  • woman in striped blouse, seated at table visible, audible
  • man in background, partially visible visible
Also said
“You'll have one. I grow carrots.” 35:15 · “A beard.” 35:18
Seen
dinner table [frame:1], plates and cutlery [frame:2], fireplace [frame:1], decorative plates on wall [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted domestic conversation; themes: family meal, generational differences, humor through understatement; style notes: medium shots, static framing, studio lighting, period costume

A group of people are seated at a dinner table in a dining room, discussing vegetables and personal preferences. One man states he is a 'meat and potato man,' while a woman claims she grows carrots and another person jokes about raising a beard.

“Don't you care for vegetables? No, that's for kids. Me, I'm a meat and potato man.” 35:01 · “All the vegetables come from the children's gardens.” 35:09 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 35:05 (passage 35:00–35:20); US record: No renewal found

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