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Little Men · Beat 153 · permalink

Farm

44:05–44:29 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 44:1244:12Frame at 44:2444:24

Play from 44:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 64 · shots 367–368. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
farm (farm, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, dark coat, light hair, standing beside cow visible
  • woman, light blouse, dark skirt, holding milking stool visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand near a cow in a barnyard; the woman holds a milking stool. [frame:1]
  • A man stands beside the cow, arms crossed, looking at the gate. [frame:2]
Also said
“I don't know, but Buttercup ain't never been able to unhook it herself.” 44:19 · “Now I gotta go back and get my hat in Buttercup's hat.” 44:24
Seen
cow [frame:1], milking stool [frame:1], wooden gate [frame:2], stone wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light comedic tension; themes: rural life, miscommunication, animal antics; style notes: medium shots, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s studio films

A man and a woman are near a cow in a barnyard; the woman holds a milking stool while the man stands beside the cow. The transcript reveals a dispute about who let the gate open and mentions retrieving a hat from the cow.

“Dallas, what are you doing with Buttercup? I told Daddy to milk her. I don't know nothing about that. She's been gallivanting around and Hodges past you again.” 44:07 · “Somebody let the gate open!” 44:16 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 44:12 (passage 44:05–44:29); US record: No renewal found

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