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Little Men · Beat 187 · permalink

Living room

56:33–56:57 Released 1940; registered 1941

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Frame at 56:4556:45

Play from 56:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 84 · shots 449–449. 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
  • Mommy (named at t:56:38): woman in dark dress, holding a letter visible, audible
  • Tommy Day (named at t:56:33): child in light shirt and bow tie, holding a plate visible, audible
  • child with curly hair, standing near table visible
  • man in light shirt and suspenders, standing right visible
  • child in light shirt, holding a bugle visible, audible
  • child with dark hair, near table visible
  • woman in light dress, standing left visible
Seen happening
  • A woman finds and hands over a letter she forgot to mail. [frame:1]
Also said
“- Love it.” 56:48 · “Thank you, Mommy.” 56:54
Seen
chocolate cake [frame:1], letter [frame:1], bugle [frame:1], plate [frame:1], table [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lively and domestic; themes: family gathering, childhood, domestic life; style notes: medium group shot, studio lighting, centered composition, period costumes

A group of children and adults gather indoors around a table with food; one child receives a letter from a woman who mentions forgetting to mail it. A man in suspenders stands nearby as children react to items including a chocolate cake and a bugle.

“- One for Tommy Day. - Thanks, Aunt Jo.” 56:33 · “Here's a stomachache for you. Goody, a chocolate cake for Grandma. Where's my letter, Mommy? Oh, Teddy, I forgot to mail it.” 56:38 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 56:45 (passage 56:33–56:57); US record: No renewal found

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