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Little Men · Beat 128 · permalink

Living room

37:42–37:54 Released 1940; registered 1941

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Frame at 37:4337:43Frame at 37:4937:49

Play from 37:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 51 · shots 312–313. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Silas (named at t:37:50): adult male, wearing a suit and tie, standing visible, audible
  • adult female, wearing a dark dress, standing near doorway visible
  • child, seated, wearing light-colored shirt visible
  • child, seated, wearing patterned dress visible
  • child, seated, wearing dark clothing visible
  • adult female, seated, wearing light dress visible
Seen happening
  • An adult male stands and speaks to a group of children and adults seated in a room. [frame:1]
  • The adult male continues speaking while children look up at him. [frame:2]
Also said
“We only play games that we can all rent into. Oh, here, Silas, now.” 37:50
Seen
armchair, lamp, fireplace, bookshelf, window with patterned glass
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: domestic and conversational; themes: family interaction, childhood games, adult authority; style notes: medium shots, static framing, studio lighting, period costumes

A group of children and adults are gathered in a room with one adult standing and speaking. The transcript indicates a discussion about playing games that everyone can join, and a character named Silas is addressed.

“He thought the children wouldn't know how to play it.” 37:46 · “I was talking about you and me and the professor.” 37:48 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 37:43 (passage 37:42–37:54); US record: No renewal found

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