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Little Men · Beat 138 · permalink

Living room

40:42–40:49 Released 1940; registered 1941

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Frame at 40:4540:45

Play from 40:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 53 · shots 345–345. 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
  • man in dark suit, seen from back, standing near window visible
  • man in dark suit, seen from side, near center visible
  • man in lighter pants and dark jacket, standing right visible
  • man in dark suit, partially obscured, near center visible
Seen
ornate window or doorway with diamond-patterned glass [frame:1], large upholstered chair with carved back [frame:1], patterned rug or carpet [frame:1], wall sconce or decorative wall element [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, social gathering, interior drama; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, deep shadows, period costume and set design

A group of men are gathered in a dimly lit, ornate room, some standing near a large window or doorway while others are positioned around a piece of furniture. The scene is shot in black and white with dramatic lighting and a static camera angle.

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 40:45 (passage 40:42–40:49); US record: No renewal found

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