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Little Men · Beat 172 · permalink

Private office

52:08–52:27 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 52:1252:12Frame at 52:1852:18Frame at 52:2352:23

Play from 52:08 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 74 · shots 419–421. 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:3
People
  • man in plaid pants and vest, leaning over a pot visible
  • man in white shirt and dark apron, eating with a spoon visible
Seen happening
  • A wagon wheel with 'TOLEDO' lettering is visible. [frame:1]
  • A wooden tub with debris and a bottle is shown. [frame:2]
  • Two men are in a room; one stirs a pot while the other eats. [frame:3]
Seen
wagon wheel, wooden tub, pot, spoon
On screen
TOLEDO
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, observational; themes: daily life, manual labor, period setting; style notes: static shots, high-contrast lighting, period costume, interior setting

A wagon wheel with 'TOLEDO' lettering is shown, followed by a close-up of a wooden tub with debris, then two men in a dim room, one stirring a pot while the other eats. No dialogue or named characters are present in this beat.

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 52:12 (passage 52:08–52:27); US record: No renewal found

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