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Little Men · Beat 163 · permalink

Living room

48:25–48:46 Released 1940; registered 1941

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Frame at 48:3648:36

Play from 48:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 70 · shots 394–394. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, dark hair styled up, wearing a light-colored blouse with ruffled collar and dark vest visible, audible
  • Ed Joe (named at t:48:26): boy, dark curly hair, wearing light shirt, head resting on arms on a chair back visible, audible
Also said
“There's nothing the matter with you.” 48:36 · “You're just a boy.” 48:38
Seen
wooden chair [frame:1], woman's blouse with ruffled collar [frame:1], woman's dark vest [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tender and reassuring; themes: childhood, comfort, maternal care; style notes: medium close-up, soft lighting, static framing, black-and-white film

A woman comforts a boy who is apologizing for causing trouble. The boy is seated with his head down, and the woman speaks to him reassuringly.

“I'm sorry, Ed Joe. I'll try not to cause you any more trouble again.” 48:26 · “I don't know what's the matter with me.” 48:34 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 48:36 (passage 48:25–48:46); US record: No renewal found

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