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Little Men · Beat 152 · permalink

Private office

43:51–44:05 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 43:5843:58

Play from 43:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 63 · shots 366–366. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, young adult, wearing vest and shirt, seated visible
  • woman, adult, wearing blouse and tie, seated visible
  • Daddy (named at t:43:58): woman, adult, wearing dress with buttons, seated, extending hand visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman extends her hand toward a man while speaking. [frame:1]
Seen
wooden bench [frame:1], wooden wall with shelves [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate; themes: family interaction, childhood request, domestic setting; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s studio films

A man and two women sit in a wooden interior; one woman extends her hand toward the man while speaking. The transcript includes a child's request for a small ring and a term of endearment.

“Oh, a ring.” 43:56 · “Blow me a little one, Daddy.” 43:58 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 43:58 (passage 43:51–44:05); US record: No renewal found

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