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Little Men · Beat 175 · permalink

Kitchen

52:32–52:52 Released 1940; registered 1941

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Frame at 52:3752:37Frame at 52:4452:44Frame at 52:4952:49

Play from 52:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 77 · shots 424–426. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
kitchen (kitchen, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man in white shirt and bow tie, medium build, smiling visible, audible
  • man in vest and plaid pants, holding a bottle visible
  • man in apron, standing near table visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a bow tie laughs while speaking. [frame:1]
  • A hand stirs a large pot of food. [frame:2]
  • Two men stand in a kitchen with food and pots; one enters after being called. [frame:3]
Also said
“You'll have to be more careful. How did that get in there, Major? I don't know.” 52:45 · “Come in.” 52:51
Seen
large pot [frame:2], bow tie [frame:1], apron [frame:3], plaid pants [frame:3], bottle [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted complaint; themes: food preparation, humor through complaint, collaborative work; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, static camera

Two men in a kitchen prepare food while one complains about the smell. A third man enters the room after being called in.

“Say Major, when we get through mixing up this chowder, I'd like to go over to the stockyards and get a whiff of fresh air.” 52:34 · “You know, a guy would have to be as drunk as a hootie owl to get this stuff past his nose.” 52:40 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 52:37 (passage 52:32–52:52); US record: No renewal found

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