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Little Men · Beat 137 · permalink

Living room

40:18–40:42 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 40:2040:20Frame at 40:2540:25Frame at 40:2940:29Frame at 40:3840:38

Play from 40:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 53 · shots 339–344. 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, frame:4
People
  • man in dark suit and tie, holding hat, young adult visible, audible
  • Charlotte (named at t:40:24): woman with dark hair, wearing patterned dress, holding a baby visible, audible
  • girl with light hair, wearing light dress, seated visible
  • young boy, hand near mouth, seated visible
  • baby being held by p2 visible
  • Andrew (named at t:40:33): boy named Andrew, mentioned in dialogue mentioned
  • adults and children in background, some seated, some standing visible
Seen happening
  • The man in the suit stands in a doorway, holding his hat. [frame:1]
  • The woman sits with children, including a baby. [frame:2]
  • A wider view shows a crowded room with adults and children. [frame:3]
  • People are moving around furniture in the room. [frame:4]
Also said
“Time for bed.” 40:27 · “It's bedtime. All right. Good night. All right. Good night, Andrew.” 40:33
Seen
suit and hat, patterned dress, baby, armchair, wall sconces, tufted sofa, wall-mounted coat rack
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: domestic, routine; themes: family routine, childhood, domestic space; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, staged composition

A man in a suit speaks and exits a room; a woman addresses children, including one named Andrew, telling them it is bedtime. The scene shifts to a wider view of a crowded room with adults and children, then shows people moving around furniture.

“Thank you, Charlotte.” 40:24 · “All right now, children.” 40:26 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 40:20 (passage 40:18–40:42); US record: No renewal found

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