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Little Men · Beat 132 · permalink

Bar

38:57–39:23 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 39:0239:02Frame at 39:0939:09Frame at 39:1539:15Frame at 39:2239:22

Play from 38:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 53 · shots 324–329. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: t:39:01, frame:2
People
  • young man, wearing a suit and bow tie, holding an accordion visible
  • man with mustache, wearing formal dark suit and bow tie visible
  • woman with dark hair, wearing patterned dress visible
  • man with white hair, standing, wearing dark coat visible
  • multiple seated patrons, men and women, in period attire visible
  • Fanny (named at t:39:19): unspecified speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A young man plays an accordion for a seated audience. [frame:1]
  • A man in formal attire stands and addresses the room. [frame:2]
  • The young man continues playing the accordion. [frame:3]
  • The formally dressed man looks directly at the camera with a stern expression. [frame:4]
Also said
“You can entertain us some other time.” 39:21
Seen
accordion [frame:1], ornate mirror [frame:1], chairs and tables [frame:2], lamp [frame:2], paintings on wall [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense interruption; themes: social gathering, interruption, performance; style notes: medium and close shots, high-contrast lighting, ornate set design, period costumes

A young man plays an accordion for a seated audience in a dimly lit room; a man in formal attire enters and interrupts. The transcript mentions a saloon and a traveling man, but the frames show an interior with ornate decor and seated patrons.

“We were down in McGinty's saloon one night, drinking our beer and gin. We were swapping our stories and feeling all right when a traveling man walked in.” 39:01 · “That's enough, Fanny.” 39:19 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 39:02 (passage 38:57–39:23); US record: No renewal found

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