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Little Men · Beat 159 · permalink

Farm

46:23–46:43 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 46:2546:25Frame at 46:3146:31Frame at 46:3646:36Frame at 46:4146:41

Play from 46:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 66 · shots 384–390. 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, dark hair in a bun, wearing a light blouse with a high collar and dark skirt visible
  • girl, light hair in a bun, wearing a light dress with a fitted bodice visible
  • Danny (named at t:46:31): boy, dark hair, wearing a light shirt, dark tie, and dark pants, perched on a fence visible
Seen happening
  • A woman and two children stand near a cow in an outdoor enclosure. [frame:1]
  • A close-up of a cow's head is shown. [frame:2]
  • The woman gestures toward the cow while speaking to the children. [frame:3]
  • The woman turns and walks away from the cow, followed by the girl and the boy. [frame:4]
Also said
“Danny.” 46:31 · “Come back and try it on this side.” 46:35
Seen
cow [frame:1], wooden fence [frame:1], child's tie [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted; themes: childhood learning, rural life, humor through misunderstanding; style notes: medium shots with a close-up on the cow; natural outdoor lighting; static camera

A woman and two children stand near a cow in an outdoor enclosure; one child is perched on a fence. The transcript includes dialogue about the cow's handedness and a request to try milking from a different side.

“You can't look buttercup from that side. She's a right-handed cow. Who are you joshing?” 46:24 · “Which one's for cream?” 46:30 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 46:25 (passage 46:23–46:43); US record: No renewal found

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