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Little Men · Beat 157 · permalink

Farm

45:45–45:59 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 45:4845:48Frame at 45:5445:54Frame at 45:5845:58

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

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 65 · shots 379–381. 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
  • woman, mid-20s to 30s, wearing a light-colored dress with a fitted waist, hair in a bun visible
  • boy, about 8-10 years old, wearing overalls and a shirt, dark hair visible
  • younger child, about 4-6 years old, wearing a light shirt and dark pants, short hair visible
Seen happening
  • The boy touches the cow's head while the woman holds its halter. [frame:1]
  • The boy bends down near the cow's head while the woman holds its halter and the younger child watches. [frame:2]
  • The cow's face is shown in close-up, looking toward the camera. [frame:3]
Also said
“Quickly, darling.” 45:52 · “Now watch closely. The last I'm going to show you.” 45:55
Seen
cow [frame:1], wooden fence [frame:1], barn or shed structure [frame:1], halter on cow [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: calm and instructional; themes: childhood learning, human-animal interaction, rural life; style notes: medium shots with natural lighting, focused on character interaction with animal; close-up on cow for emphasis

A woman and two children are near a cow in an outdoor enclosure; one child is guided to touch the cow while being instructed to watch closely. The setting appears to be a farmyard with wooden fencing and a barn-like structure.

“Let me that stool.” 45:45 · “That's a little buttercup.” 45:49 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 45:48 (passage 45:45–45:59); US record: No renewal found

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