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Little Men · Beat 188 · permalink

Living room

56:57–57:06 Released 1940; registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Not yet checked. The automatic checks have not run on this beat. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 57:0157:01

Play from 56:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 85 · shots 450–450. 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
  • Daniel (named at t:57:03): adult male, dark hair, wearing light shirt and dark tie, seated visible, audible
  • Diane (named at t:56:59): child, light hair, wearing light shirt and patterned tie, seated visible
Seen happening
  • Daniel hands a letter to Diane while seated together. [frame:1]
Seen
letter [frame:1], chair [frame:1], patterned tie [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: quiet, domestic; themes: family correspondence, childhood responsibility; style notes: medium close-up, soft studio lighting, static framing

A man and a child sit together indoors; the man hands a letter to the child while speaking. The child is addressed as Diane and the man as Daniel in the transcript.

“Bring my letter for me, will you, Diane? Here's one for Bobby.” 56:59 · “Thank you, Daniel.” 57:03 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 57:01 (passage 56:57–57:06); US record: No renewal found

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