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Little Men · Beat 113 · permalink

Dining room

35:40–35:57 Released 1940; registered 1941

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Frame at 35:4135:41Frame at 35:4535:45Frame at 35:4835:48Frame at 35:5535:55

Play from 35:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 288–293. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
dining_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, adult, mustache, wearing suit and bow tie visible
  • woman, adult, dark hair, wearing patterned dress with white collar visible
  • boy, young, wearing dark jacket visible
  • girl, young, wearing light dress, seated at table visible
  • boy, young, wearing dark jacket, seated at table visible
  • child, young, raising hand visible
Seen happening
  • A child raises their hand in response to the vote. [frame:4]
Also said
“Those in favor, put up their hands.” 35:51
Seen
dining table [frame:2], bow tie [frame:1], wall mirror [frame:2], plates and food [frame:3], raised hand [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal yet playful; themes: family gathering, childhood rebellion, democratic ritual; style notes: static medium shots, studio lighting, staged composition

A man in a suit and bow tie sits at a table while others, including children, are seated around a dining table. A vote is proposed about learning to smoke, and hands are raised in response.

“Anybody else like to learn to smoke?” 35:44 · “Well, let's put it to a vote.” 35:49 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 35:41 (passage 35:40–35:57); US record: No renewal found

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