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44:53–45:07 Released 1940; registered 1941

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Frame at 44:5544:55Frame at 45:0245:02

Play from 44:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 65 · shots 373–374. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • Woman wearing a dark head covering and a light-colored dress with a collar and brooch, standing behind a wooden barrier. visible
  • Man wearing a light shirt, dark suspenders, and dark trousers, sitting and leaning forward. visible
  • Boy wearing a light shirt, dark tie, and dark trousers, sitting on a box. visible
  • Woman wearing a dark dress with puffed sleeves, sitting and facing the man and boy. visible
Seen happening
  • A woman stands behind a wooden barrier, looking off-camera. [frame:1]
  • A man, a boy, and a woman are seated together in a cluttered room, appearing to converse. [frame:2]
Also said
“Don't you tell Teddy.” 44:58 · “I'm no snitch.” 45:03
Seen
wooden barrier [frame:1], wooden shelves and boxes [frame:2], wooden box (used as seat) [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: secrecy, childhood loyalty, domestic tension; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black and white, staged composition

A woman stands behind a wooden barrier while a man, a boy, and another woman sit nearby in a cluttered interior space. Dialogue indicates a secret is being kept from someone named Teddy.

“Danny!” 44:55 · “Daddy Birdle?” 44:57 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 44:55 (passage 44:53–45:07); US record: No renewal found

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