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Little Men · Beat 114 · permalink

Dining room

35:57–36:03 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 35:5835:58Frame at 36:0136:01

Play from 35:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 294–295. 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, dark hair, mustache, wearing formal suit with bow tie visible
  • young man, dark hair, wearing dark jacket with neckerchief visible
  • Nan (named at t:35:57): young woman, dark hair, wearing light-colored dress, writing with pen visible
  • young man, light hair, wearing light jacket, holding spoon visible
Seen happening
  • A man in formal wear sits at a table, looking off-camera. [frame:1]
  • Three young people sit at a table with food and writing materials; one is writing. [frame:2]
Seen
formal suit with bow tie, dining table with food and teapot, pen and paper, wall shelves with decorative plates
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or dismissive; themes: social commentary, youth and authority, gender roles; style notes: medium close-up and medium shot, studio lighting, formal composition

A man in formal wear speaks at a table while three others sit with him; one of the seated individuals is a young woman writing. The transcript includes a dismissive remark about 'sissies' and a reference to 'Nan.'

“Not even you, Nan.” 35:57 · “What a bunch of sissies.” 35:59 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 35:58 (passage 35:57–36:03); US record: No renewal found

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