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Little Men · Beat 170 · permalink

Living room

51:09–51:43 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 51:1151:11Frame at 51:1351:13Frame at 51:1651:16Frame at 51:3151:31

Play from 51:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 72 · shots 413–416. 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
  • woman, dark hair in a bun, wearing a patterned dress with a white collar visible, audible
  • man, dark hair, mustache, wearing a dark suit and light trousers visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man leans back in a chair and gestures while speaking. [frame:2]
  • The man stands and faces the woman as they continue their conversation. [frame:3]
  • The man and woman stand close, facing each other, continuing their discussion. [frame:4]
Also said
“- Where? - Jail.” 51:26 · “But why have you kept this a secret? Why didn't you tell me at the time? I wanted to surprise you. Christopher Columbus.” 51:41
Seen
fireplace, shelf with figurines, lamp, clock, framed picture
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and concerned; themes: absence, distrust, domestic conflict; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, period costume and set design

A woman and a man are in a room with period furnishings; the woman speaks about a missing Major while the man reacts. The dialogue suggests concern over the Major's whereabouts and a disagreement about whether he is dishonest or traveling.

“I always felt that man was dishonest.” 51:10 · “Now come, come, dear. I can think of a million reasons why we haven't heard from the Major. But not one good one. He could be traveling.” 51:12 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 51:11 (passage 51:09–51:43); US record: No renewal found

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