Park

56:09–56:16 Released 1940; registered 1941

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56:13

Play from 56:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 81 · shots 446–446. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place

park (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1

People

boy, light shirt, dark pants, running visible
boy, light shirt, light pants, running visible
boy, light shirt, dark pants, running visible

Seen happening

Three boys run from left to right across a grassy area. [frame:1]

Seen

white picket fence [frame:1], trees [frame:1], grass [frame:1]

Interpretation

Model opinion, not evidence: mood: energetic; themes: childhood, play, outdoor activity; style notes: wide shot, black and white, natural lighting, outdoor setting

Three boys run across a grassy area with trees and a white picket fence in the background. The scene is outdoors and appears to be in a park or yard.

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 56:13 (passage 56:09–56:16); US record: No renewal found

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Figure for a newsletter or page: <figure><a href="https://publicreel.org/moment/little_men/b184"><img src="https://publicreel.org/atlas-img/little_men/0446.webp" alt="Frame from Little Men (1940) at 56:13 (passage 56:09–56:16); US record: No renewal found" width="640"></a><figcaption>Little Men (1940), 56:09–56:16. Internet Archive copy little_men; US record: No renewal found. Via Public Reel.</figcaption></figure>
Cite: Public Reel, "Little Men (1940), 56:09–56:16", https://publicreel.org/moment/little_men/b184, from Internet Archive item little_men, retrieved 6 September 2026.

Park

Evidence and details

The record

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