Jail

40:49–40:56 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.

40:52

Play from 40:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 54 · shots 346–346. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place

jail (jail, interior) evidence: frame:1

People

young person, wearing a dark bowler hat, formal dark coat, white collar, and tie visible

Seen

barred window [frame:1], stone wall [frame:1], bowler hat [frame:1], formal coat [frame:1]

Interpretation

Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber; themes: confinement, youth in formal setting; style notes: static medium shot, high contrast lighting, period costume, stone texture prominent

A young person in formal attire stands beside a barred window in a stone-walled room. No dialogue or additional context is provided in this beat.

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 40:52 (passage 40:49–40:56); US record: No renewal found

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Figure for a newsletter or page: <figure><a href="https://publicreel.org/moment/little_men/b139"><img src="https://publicreel.org/atlas-img/little_men/0346.webp" alt="Frame from Little Men (1940) at 40:52 (passage 40:49–40:56); US record: No renewal found" width="640"></a><figcaption>Little Men (1940), 40:49–40:56. Internet Archive copy little_men; US record: No renewal found. Via Public Reel.</figcaption></figure>
Cite: Public Reel, "Little Men (1940), 40:49–40:56", https://publicreel.org/moment/little_men/b139, from Internet Archive item little_men, retrieved 6 September 2026.

Jail

Evidence and details

The record

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