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Little Men · Beat 135 · permalink

Living room

39:59–40:16 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 40:0040:00Frame at 40:0340:03Frame at 40:1040:10

Play from 39:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 53 · shots 335–337. 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, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • young man, dark hair, wearing a dark suit with a white collar and bow tie visible
  • older man, white hair, standing, wearing dark coat visible
  • group of adults and children seated, varied clothing visible
Seen happening
  • The young man stands in front of an ornate clock. [frame:1]
  • The group is seated in a room with furniture and a lamp. [frame:2]
  • The young man gestures with his hands while speaking to the group. [frame:3]
Also said
“The front door key?” 40:06 · “It's right there on the whole table.” 40:07
Seen
{'item': 'ornate clock', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'lamp', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'furniture including chairs and table', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'dark suit with white collar and bow tie', 'frame': 1}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual and conversational; themes: family gathering, leisure activity, intergenerational interaction; style notes: medium shots, static framing, studio lighting, period costume

A young man in formal attire speaks to a group in a decorated interior room. Others are seated or standing nearby, and a large ornate clock is visible in the background.

“Anyone want to get down to the village and shoot a little pool?” 40:00 · “Well, what are you waiting for, Daddy?” 40:04 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 40:00 (passage 39:59–40:16); US record: No renewal found

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