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Little Men · Beat 144 · permalink

Bedroom

42:01–42:27 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 42:1442:14

Play from 42:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 57 · shots 352–352. 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
  • child, wearing light-colored pajamas, dark hair, seated visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A child is visible in a bedroom, speaking. [frame:1]
Also said
“God bless the chickens.” 42:11 · “God bless you.” 42:13
Seen
child in pajamas [frame:1], checkered fabric (possibly bedspread or clothing) [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: quiet, intimate; themes: childhood, blessings, domestic life; style notes: close-up shot, black and white, soft lighting, focused on child's face and upper body

A child in pajamas is visible in a bedroom, speaking a series of blessings. The transcript includes fragmented phrases and names, some of which may be spoken by the child or another person.

“God bless mommy, God bless poppy, God bless.” 42:03 · “Lemon, jerk and stuffy.” 42:08 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 42:14 (passage 42:01–42:27); US record: No renewal found

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