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Little Men · Beat 136 · permalink

Living room

40:16–40:18 Released 1940; registered 1941

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Frame at 40:1740:17

Play from 40:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 53 · shots 338–338. 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
  • adult male, dark suit, seated in background visible
  • girl, light dress with pattern, seated left foreground visible
  • boy, dark jacket, seated center visible
  • boy, light shirt, seated front center visible
  • boy, dark shirt, seated right visible
  • boy, light hair, seated front right visible
  • boy, dark hair, seated center visible
  • boy, light shirt, seated left visible
  • boy, dark shirt, seated center right visible
  • boy, light shirt, seated center visible
Seen
lamp [frame:1], sofa [frame:1], armchair [frame:1], carpet [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: childhood, group gathering; style notes: medium group shot, black and white, studio lighting, static framing

A group of children and one adult are seated together in a room with furniture and a lamp. The scene is shot in black and white with studio lighting.

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 40:17 (passage 40:16–40:18); US record: No renewal found

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