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Little Men · Beat 143 · permalink

Bedroom

41:37–42:01 Released 1940; registered 1941

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Frame at 41:4941:49

Play from 41:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 56 · shots 351–351. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman in a checkered dress, standing, mid-adult visible
  • woman in a dark dress, standing, mid-adult visible
  • boy, bent over bed, wearing dark clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A woman in a checkered dress stands beside a bed where a boy is bent over. [frame:1]
  • Another woman stands nearby watching. [frame:1]
Seen
bed [frame:1], fireplace [frame:1], candlestick [frame:1], chair [frame:1], wall sconce [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: domestic, gentle; themes: childhood, routine, caregiving; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast lighting, static framing, period costume

A woman in a checkered dress stands beside a bed where a boy is bent over, while another woman in a dark dress stands nearby; the transcript includes lines about golden hair and a reminder to say a prayer before sleeping. The scene is set in a bedroom with visible furniture and a fireplace.

“Wake up, young man. You've got to go sleep.” 41:49 · “Oh, oh, you haven't said your prayer. Come on.” 41:58 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 41:49 (passage 41:37–42:01); US record: No renewal found

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