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Little Men · Beat 165 · permalink

Classroom

49:03–49:18 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 49:0749:07Frame at 49:1449:14Frame at 49:1749:17

Play from 49:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 72 · shots 397–399. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
classroom (school, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • adult male, dark suit, standing at front of room visible
  • boy, light shirt, seated at desk, facing front visible
  • boy, light shirt, seated at table, looking up visible
  • boy, light shirt, seated at table, looking left visible
  • boy, light shirt and bow tie, standing at table, smiling visible
  • girl, light dress, seated at table, looking up visible
Seen happening
  • Teacher points to a map of Europe on a blackboard. [frame:2]
  • A boy stands smiling at a table with other students seated. [frame:3]
Also said
“Tulips!” 49:16 · “Right?” 49:17
Seen
blackboard with map [frame:2], chandelier [frame:1], student desks [frame:1], table with books [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and instructional; themes: education, student-teacher interaction, geography lesson; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white, studio lighting, staged classroom set

A teacher stands before a classroom map while students sit at desks; one student answers 'Tulips!' to a question about Holland. The scene shifts to a group of students at a table, one standing and smiling.

“It ain't still therein.” 49:06 · “I want you to name the principal products of these countries.” 49:09 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 49:07 (passage 49:03–49:18); US record: No renewal found

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