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Little Men · Beat 168 · permalink

Living room

49:40–50:31 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 49:5549:55Frame at 50:1850:18Frame at 50:2850:28

Play from 49:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 72 · shots 407–409. 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
  • man, dark hair, wearing dark coat and light trousers, standing visible, audible
  • woman, dark hair in updo, wearing patterned dress with white collar, seated visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man stands facing the woman in a room with wallpaper and a fireplace. [frame:1]
  • The man turns his back to the woman, who remains seated in an ornate chair. [frame:2]
  • The woman sits alone in the chair, looking forward with a serious expression. [frame:3]
Also said
“You have only thought of me as a musician and artist, dreamer,” 50:04 · “I sensed right away that he was a good-hearted man,” 50:21
Seen
ornate chair, fireplace, wallpaper, curtains, framed pictures
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: financial responsibility, gender roles in business, conflict between art and commerce; style notes: medium shots, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, period costume and set design

A man and a woman argue in a room about money given to a Major Burdle for investment. The woman sits while the man stands and explains his actions, claiming he sensed the major was a good-hearted financier.

“These bills have to be paid. The money's not in the safe. Where did you put it?” 49:41 · “I gave it to Major Pertl to invest.” 49:48 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 49:55 (passage 49:40–50:31); US record: No renewal found

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