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Little Men · Beat 166 · permalink

Classroom

49:18–49:38 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 49:1949:19Frame at 49:2549:25Frame at 49:2749:27Frame at 49:3449:34

Play from 49:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends. Sequence 72 · shots 400–405. 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, frame:2
People
  • man, adult, dark suit, standing, holding pointer visible
  • woman, adult, patterned dress with white collar, holding books visible, audible
  • child, boy, light shirt, seated at desk visible
  • multiple children, seated at desks, wearing period school clothes visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands before a map of Europe pointing with a stick. [frame:1]
  • Students are seated at desks in a classroom. [frame:2]
  • A woman enters the room holding books and speaks. [frame:3]
  • The man turns away from the map as the woman approaches. [frame:4]
Also said
“May I speak to you a moment, please, dear?” 49:26 · “you can take a thesis now children” 49:29
Seen
map of Europe, pointer stick, school desks, books, chandelier, bookshelves
On screen
SEA FRANCE / NoRTH SEA FRANCE fy
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, instructional, with a hint of interruption; themes: education, authority, interruption, classroom dynamics; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white, studio lighting, period costumes and set design

A man stands before a map of Europe in a classroom while a woman enters and speaks to him; students are seated at desks. The transcript includes brief exchanges about names and Denmark, and a request to speak privately.

“- Benjamin? - Name?” 49:18 · “Me.” 49:20 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 49:19 (passage 49:18–49:38); US record: No renewal found

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