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Little Men · Beat 140 · permalink

Bedroom

40:56–41:01 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 40:5740:57Frame at 41:0041:00

Play from 40:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 55 · shots 347–348. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • adult woman, dark hair in a bun, wearing a checkered dress visible
  • child, dark hair, wearing a light-colored dress visible
Seen happening
  • A woman sits on a bed with a child and holds the child's hand. [frame:1]
  • The woman leans toward the child, appearing to comfort them. [frame:2]
Seen
bed [frame:1], patterned wallpaper [frame:1], wooden chair [frame:1], lamp [frame:1], small dark object on bed (possibly a shoe or toy) [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: quiet, intimate, somber; themes: comfort, childhood, domestic life; style notes: medium shot, static framing, soft lighting, domestic interior

A woman and a child sit on a bed in a room with patterned wallpaper and furniture; the woman appears to comfort the child. The transcript includes a line about a blackbird in a spoon and a note of sad singing.

“The blackbird in the spoon” 40:56 · “*sad singing*” 40:59 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 40:57 (passage 40:56–41:01); US record: No renewal found

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