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Little Men · Beat 15 · permalink

Living room

5:49–6:13 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 5:555:55Frame at 6:016:01Frame at 6:076:07Frame at 6:116:11

Play from 5:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 10 · shots 32–36. 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, middle-aged, wearing a bowler hat and overcoat visible, audible
  • Major (named at t:5:50): man, middle-aged, wearing a suit and bow tie, holding a baby visible, audible
  • baby, wrapped in white cloth, visible in p2's arms visible
Seen happening
  • p1 hands a baby to p2 [frame:1]
  • p1 departs through a doorway [frame:2]
  • p2 holds the baby and looks at it [frame:4]
Also said
“Well, you gotta bribe it to go to sleep or else it'll ball all night.” 5:54 · “What is it, a boy or a girl?” 6:02
Seen
baby wrapped in white cloth, bowler hat, overcoat, suit and bow tie, wooden staircase railing
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: mildly comedic, domestic; themes: childcare, gender curiosity, domestic exchange; style notes: medium shots, static framing, high-contrast studio lighting

A man in a bowler hat hands a baby to another man in a suit, who then holds the baby while the first man departs. The dialogue suggests the baby is being given care instructions and its gender is questioned.

“Here you are, Major.” 5:50 · “Give it plenty of milk, you know. It's, uh...” 5:52 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 5:55 (passage 5:49–6:13); US record: No renewal found

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