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Little Men · Beat 134 · permalink

Living room

39:27–39:59 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 39:3439:34Frame at 39:4439:44Frame at 39:4939:49Frame at 39:5439:54

Play from 39:27 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 53 · shots 331–334. 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
  • older man, standing, dark suit, light shirt, white hair visible, audible
  • boy, standing, dark suit, white shirt, dark tie, short hair visible
  • woman, seated, dark patterned dress, dark hair visible
  • child, seated, dark dress, light bow, dark hair visible
  • man, seated, dark suit, light shirt, dark hair visible
  • child, seated, light dress, dark hair visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands and addresses a seated group in a living room. [frame:1]
  • A boy in a suit crouches and looks thoughtful. [frame:2]
  • The boy stands with hands in pockets, looking forward. [frame:3]
  • The man continues speaking to the group. [frame:4]
Also said
“The guns began to go off, the shells started to bust.” 39:45 · “I tried to hide behind a tree, but there was only enough trees for the officers.” 39:53
Seen
lamp, ornate mirror, chairs, couch, picture frame
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dramatic and nostalgic; themes: storytelling, childhood memory, wartime recollection; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costumes, staged composition

A man stands and speaks to a group of seated adults and children in a dimly lit room; a boy in a suit is shown in close-up and medium shots. The transcript describes a wartime march and subsequent battle, with the speaker expressing patriotism and fear.

“Come on, darling. Come on, darling. What happened after that? Well, Ted.” 39:28 · “We marched for three days and three nights.” 39:35 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 39:34 (passage 39:27–39:59); US record: No renewal found

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