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Little Men · Beat 17 · permalink

State orphanage exterior

6:20–6:44 Released 1940; registered 1941

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Frame at 6:326:32

Play from 6:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 12 · shots 38–38. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
State Orphanage exterior (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a top hat and dark coat, carrying a box visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a top hat walks toward the entrance of a building labeled 'STATE ORPHANAGE' while carrying a box. [frame:1]
Seen
horse-drawn carriage [frame:1], box [frame:1], top hat [frame:1], brick building with sign reading 'STATE ORPHANAGE' [frame:1], lantern mounted on wall [frame:1]
On screen
STATE ORPHANAGE
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, observational; themes: institutional setting, arrival or delivery; style notes: static medium shot, black-and-white, period costume and architecture visible

A man in a top hat carries a box toward a building labeled 'STATE ORPHANAGE' while a horse-drawn carriage is parked nearby. The scene is set outdoors in front of a brick building with a visible entrance and a lantern.

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 6:32 (passage 6:20–6:44); US record: No renewal found

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