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Little Men · Beat 146 · permalink

Bedroom

42:29–42:53 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 42:3342:33Frame at 42:3742:37Frame at 42:4642:46Frame at 42:5042:50

Play from 42:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 58 · shots 354–358. 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
  • boy, dark hair, wearing pajamas, sitting in bed visible
  • adult, wearing checkered dress, standing beside bed visible
  • boy, light hair, wearing dark suit and tie, standing visible
  • woman, dark skin, wearing checkered dress and apron, hair in bun visible
Seen happening
  • A boy in pajamas sits in bed while an adult in a checkered dress stands beside him. [frame:1]
  • A boy in a suit stands in the room, looking upward. [frame:2]
  • The boy in the suit continues standing, now looking forward. [frame:3]
  • A woman in a checkered dress stands in a doorway. [frame:4]
Also said
“And Silas blows the bugle for breakfast at six o'clock.” 42:41 · “You can shoot off a cannon for all I care. I don't get up until I'm good and ready.” 42:44
Seen
checkered dress [frame:1], pajamas [frame:1], suit and tie [frame:2], hat on stand [frame:2], wooden cabinet [frame:2], patterned wallpaper [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: domestic, slightly tense; themes: daily routine, childhood resistance to authority, household dynamics; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static framing, studio lighting

A boy in pajamas sits in bed while an adult in a checkered dress stands beside him; another boy in a suit stands in the room, and a woman in a checkered dress appears in the doorway. Dialogue indicates a nightly routine involving a bugle for breakfast and resistance to waking up early.

“Amen.” 42:32 · “Do I have to listen to that every night? You sure do.” 42:36 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 42:33 (passage 42:29–42:53); US record: No renewal found

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