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Little Men · Beat 127 · permalink

Living room

37:18–37:42 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 37:2237:22Frame at 37:3437:34

Play from 37:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 51 · shots 310–311. 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 seated on left, wearing light dress, dark hair visible
  • woman seated center, wearing patterned dress with white collar, dark hair visible
  • child seated right, wearing dark dress, light hair visible
  • man standing, wearing dark suit and tie, dark hair visible, audible
  • man seated right, wearing suit and tie, light hair visible, audible
Also said
“And there's always checkers and dominoes. Just kid stuff, huh?” 37:30 · “Got anything against a round of stud poker?” 37:39
Seen
fireplace [frame:1], couch [frame:1], armchair [frame:2], wallpaper [frame:1], flower arrangement [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual and conversational; themes: leisure, social gathering, games; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, static framing, period costumes

A group of people are gathered in a living room, discussing leisure activities including playing cards and poker. One person stands while others sit on a couch and chairs, with a fireplace and decorative wallpaper visible.

“Popcorn?” 37:20 · “Oh, yes. We have gay time.” 37:25 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 37:22 (passage 37:18–37:42); US record: No renewal found

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