Public Reel

Little Men · Beat 158 · permalink

Farm

45:59–46:23 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 46:0646:06Frame at 46:1846:18

Play from 45:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 66 · shots 382–383. 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, frame:2
People
  • boy in white shirt, dark suspenders, and bow tie, standing upright visible
  • boy in dark jacket, crouched near cow's head visible
  • girl in light dress, standing left visible
  • girl in dark dress, standing near cow visible
  • child sitting on fence, wearing dark pants with holes visible
  • child in background, partially obscured, near fence visible
Also said
“Gee whiz. Don't be afraid.” 46:16 · “Who's afraid? No, no, no, Danny. Come back and do it on this side.” 46:19
Seen
cow [frame:1, frame:2], wooden fence [frame:1, frame:2], stool [frame:2], bow tie [frame:1, frame:2], suspenders [frame:1, frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: instructional with mild tension; themes: childhood responsibility, farm life, learning through doing; style notes: medium shots, static framing, natural outdoor lighting, black-and-white film

A group of children and an adult are gathered around a cow in an outdoor setting with wooden fencing; one child is instructed to try something while another is told to return to a specific side. The dialogue suggests a lesson or task involving the cow, with one child expressing fear and being reassured.

“They're the only one in school who's been shirking their farm duties.” 45:59 · “You see? It connects to it.” 46:11 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.

Share

Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.

Frame from Little Men (1940) at 46:06 (passage 45:59–46:23); US record: No renewal found

Permalink
always the current cut
Permalink to this version
warns if the beats are recut later
Card image
https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/little_men/b158.png
Figure for a newsletter or page
Cite