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Little Men · Beat 142 · permalink

Living room

41:26–41:37 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 41:3141:31

Play from 41:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 56 · shots 350–350. 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, viewed from back, medium build visible
  • woman in long dark dress, viewed from back, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand facing a doorway in a dimly lit room. [frame:1]
Seen
chandelier, staircase railing, patterned wallpaper, doorway with decorative frame
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: quiet, intimate; themes: farewell, domestic space, unseen interaction; style notes: medium shot, backlit from doorway, high-contrast lighting, static framing

A man and a woman stand in a dimly lit interior space, facing away from the camera toward a doorway; the transcript indicates a farewell. No names are spoken that can be linked to the visible figures.

“Good night, Danny. Sleep well. Good night.” 41:32 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 41:31 (passage 41:26–41:37); US record: No renewal found

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