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Little Men · Beat 156 · permalink

Farm

45:07–45:45 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 45:1245:12Frame at 45:2445:24Frame at 45:3445:34Frame at 45:4145:41

Play from 45:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 65 · shots 375–378. 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
  • Aunt Jo (named at t:45:15): woman, dark hair in a bun, wearing a light-colored blouse and dark vest visible, audible
  • Danny (named at t:45:11): boy, light hair, wearing a white shirt with suspenders and a dark bow tie visible, audible
  • Nan (named at t:45:15): girl, dark hair, wearing a light-colored shirt with a tie visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman and a boy stand near a cow; the woman speaks to the boy. [frame:1]
  • The woman and boy stand side by side behind the cow, looking at each other. [frame:2]
  • The woman pets the cow's head while the girl looks at the cow. [frame:3]
  • The woman and boy stand together behind the cow, talking. [frame:4]
Also said
“Buttercup state champion, I'll let you know.” 45:31 · “It is almost a human being.” 45:35
Seen
cow [frame:1], stone wall [frame:1], wooden building [frame:1], cowbell [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: mildly tense, with a domestic, instructional tone; themes: childhood responsibility, animal care, authority and obedience; style notes: medium shots, static framing, natural lighting, black-and-white film stock

A woman and two children are outdoors near a cow named Buttercup; the woman scolds the children for leaving the gate open and discusses milking the cow. The cow is present and being touched by one child while the others talk.

“Danny, can you leave Buttercup's gate open again?” 45:11 · “The difference between obeying and disobeying. I won't have Buttockup wandering about.” 45:18 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 45:12 (passage 45:07–45:45); US record: No renewal found

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