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Little Men · Beat 162 · permalink

Yard

48:05–48:25 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 48:1548:15

Play from 48:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 69 · shots 393–393. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
yard (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a light blouse and dark skirt, standing visible, audible
  • Danny (named at t:48:20): boy, dark hair, wearing a light shirt, leaning on a fence visible, audible
Also said
“You see, Danny? You never must hurt anyone. You only hurt yourself more.” 48:20
Seen
wooden fence, stone wall
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: didactic and calm; themes: moral instruction, childhood discipline; style notes: medium shot, static framing, natural outdoor lighting, black-and-white film

A woman speaks to a boy named Danny beside a wooden fence; she advises him not to hurt others because it only hurts himself more. A dog barks and someone exclaims in surprise just before this exchange.

“Woof!” 48:15 · “Oh, my God.” 48:16 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 48:15 (passage 48:05–48:25); US record: No renewal found

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