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Little Men · Beat 123 · permalink

Living room

36:48–36:59 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 36:5436:54

Play from 36:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 49 · shots 304–304. 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
  • boy, wearing a sweater over a collared shirt, standing visible
  • boy, wearing a dark jacket, seated, looking down visible
  • boy, wearing a dark hat and coat, seated in background visible
Seen
{'item': 'ornate wooden furniture', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'carved wooden screen or backdrop', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'cushioned chair', 'frame': 1}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: quiet, contemplative; themes: childhood, domestic interior, social interaction; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, period costume

A boy in a sweater stands in a room with ornate furniture while another boy sits nearby; a third boy is visible in the background. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 36:54 (passage 36:48–36:59); US record: No renewal found

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