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Little Men · Beat 185 · permalink

Living room

56:16–56:22 Released 1940; registered 1941

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Frame at 56:1956:19

Play from 56:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 82 · shots 447–447. 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
  • adult woman in dark dress, standing left visible
  • adult man in light shirt and bow tie, center visible
  • child in white dress, center visible
  • adult man in dark suit and hat, right visible
  • child in dark outfit, center visible
  • adult man in light shirt, behind p2 visible
Seen
chandelier, tufted sofa, wrought iron gate, wooden chair, wallpapered walls
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal gathering; themes: domestic gathering, childhood, social interaction; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, staged composition

A group of people, including children and adults, are gathered in a decorated room with furniture and a chandelier. No dialogue or on-screen text is 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 56:19 (passage 56:16–56:22); US record: No renewal found

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