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Little Men · Beat 169 · permalink

Living room

50:31–51:09 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 50:3650:36Frame at 50:4650:46Frame at 51:0151:01

Play from 50:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 72 · shots 410–412. 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 suit, bow tie, styled hair, middle-aged, medium build visible, audible
  • woman, patterned dress with white collar, dark hair in updo, middle-aged visible, audible
Also said
“We were perfect strangers to him.” 51:00 · “Oh, how would you do such a thing without consulting me?” 51:07
Seen
oil lamp, armchair, patterned wallpaper
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and accusatory; themes: trust, financial risk, marital conflict; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static camera, period costume

A man and a woman are in a heated discussion in a living room; the man is accused of swindling and of betraying trust by investing money without consulting the woman. The transcript reveals the woman's anger over the man's financial decisions and his trust in a stranger.

“You've been swindled.” 50:51 · “Where is your faith in people? You entrusted every single penny we have in the world to a perfect stranger.” 50:55 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 50:36 (passage 50:31–51:09); US record: No renewal found

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