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Little Men · Beat 117 · permalink

Living room

36:10–36:19 Released 1940; registered 1941

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Frame at 36:1536:15

Play from 36:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 45 · shots 298–298. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, seated at table, smiling visible
  • woman in polka-dot dress, standing, offering bouquet visible
  • man in dark jacket, standing, receiving bouquet visible
  • boy in light shirt, standing behind woman, holding violin visible
Seen
{'item': 'bouquet of flowers', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'violin', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'table with checkered board', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'wall decorations including framed pictures', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: domestic and gentle; themes: family gathering, gift-giving, musical performance; style notes: medium shot, soft studio lighting, staged composition with figures arranged around a central action

A group of four people are gathered around a table; one woman offers a bouquet to a man while another man plays a violin in the background. The setting appears to be an indoor room with decorative elements and furniture.

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 36:15 (passage 36:10–36:19); US record: No renewal found

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