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Little Men · Beat 126 · permalink

Living room

37:06–37:18 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 37:0937:09Frame at 37:1437:14Frame at 37:1737:17

Play from 37:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 51 · shots 307–309. 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
  • woman standing, wearing a dark suit and tie, dark hair styled up visible
  • woman seated, wearing a patterned dress, dark hair visible
  • child seated, wearing dark clothing, short hair visible
  • man seated, wearing light shirt, dark hair visible
  • child lying on floor, light hair visible
  • man seated, wearing dark jacket, arms crossed visible
  • child seated, wearing light shirt, dark hair visible
  • woman seated, wearing light dress, dark hair visible
  • man standing in doorway, wearing dark suit visible
Seen happening
  • A group of people are seated or lying on the floor in a crowded room. [frame:1]
  • A woman stands while others sit around her. [frame:2]
  • A man stands in a doorway observing the room. [frame:3]
Seen
fireplace, chandelier, patterned wallpaper, couch, lamp, bookshelf
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual and conversational; themes: community gathering, childhood activities, domestic space; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, crowded composition with depth

A group of people, including children and adults, are gathered in a crowded room with ornate decor. One woman stands while others sit or lie on the floor, and a line of dialogue asks what activities are done to avoid going 'batting'.

“Thank you, Matt.” 37:09 · “What do you do around here nice to keep from going batting?” 37:12 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 37:09 (passage 37:06–37:18); US record: No renewal found

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