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Little Men · Beat 171 · permalink

Private office

51:43–52:08 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 51:5151:51Frame at 52:0452:04

Play from 51:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 73 · shots 417–418. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man with dark hair and mustache, wearing dark formal coat and bow tie visible
  • woman with dark hair, wearing patterned dress with white collar and holding a handkerchief visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand facing forward in an interior room. [frame:1]
  • A sign reading 'RUSHVILLE' is visible on a wagon wheel. [frame:2]
Also said
“I sincerely hope not.” 51:59 · “Ladies, ladies, how would you like to have a man like this for the father of your children?” 52:01
Seen
sign reading 'RUSHVILLE' [frame:2], wagon wheel [frame:2], handkerchief [frame:1], wall clock [frame:1]
On screen
RUSHVILLE
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and slightly tense; themes: social expectation, fatherhood, public reputation; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, static framing, period costume

A man and a woman stand in an interior room; a sign reading 'RUSHVILLE' is visible on a wagon wheel. The transcript includes dialogue about a Major and a rhetorical question about fatherhood.

“Joe.” 51:53 · “I know the Major will not fail us.” 51:54 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 51:51 (passage 51:43–52:08); US record: No renewal found

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