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56:22–56:33 Released 1940; registered 1941

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Frame at 56:2756:27

Play from 56:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 83 · shots 448–448. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • boy, wearing suspenders and a bow tie, light-colored shirt, short hair visible
  • boy, partially visible, wearing light shirt and vest, side profile visible
  • unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A boy in suspenders stands facing forward while another boy stands to his left. [frame:1]
Also said
“Just give me time to store up the mail and I'm sure we'll find a letter here for each one of you.” 56:27 · “Now, if the package is there,” 56:31
Seen
suspenders, bow tie, vase or urn on stand
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: calm, anticipatory; themes: childhood, waiting, domestic life; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, black-and-white, static framing

A boy in suspenders and a bow tie stands in a room while another boy is partially visible to his left; an off-screen voice addresses children about mail and packages. No names are spoken, and the setting appears to be an interior space with minimal decor.

“Now, now, children, please.” 56:23 · “Don't be so impatient.” 56:25 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 56:27 (passage 56:22–56:33); US record: No renewal found

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