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Little Men · Beat 131 · permalink

Living room

38:56–38:57 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 38:5738:57

Play from 38:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 52 · shots 323–323. 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
  • young girl, light dress, bow in hair visible
  • boy, dark jacket, seated front row visible
  • boy, light hair, seated front row visible
  • boy, dark hair, seated middle row visible
  • boy, dark hair, seated back row visible
  • adult male, dark suit, seated back left visible
  • boy, seated back right, partially obscured visible
  • boy, seated middle row, light hair visible
  • boy, seated front row, dark hair visible
  • boy, seated middle row, dark jacket visible
  • boy, seated back row, dark hair visible
  • boy, seated front row, light hair visible
  • boy, seated middle row, dark hair visible
  • boy, seated back row, light hair visible
  • boy, seated front row, dark jacket visible
  • boy, seated middle row, light hair visible
  • boy, seated back row, dark jacket visible
  • boy, seated front row, dark hair visible
  • boy, seated middle row, dark hair visible
  • boy, seated back row, light hair visible
Seen
lamp [frame:1], sofa [frame:1], chairs [frame:1], carpet [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: static, attentive; themes: childhood, gathering, domestic setting; style notes: medium group shot, frontal framing, studio lighting

A group of children and one adult male are seated together in a room with furniture and a lamp. 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 38:57 (passage 38:56–38:57); US record: No renewal found

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