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Little Men · Beat 190 · permalink

Kitchen

57:30–58:03 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 57:3257:32Frame at 57:4857:48

Play from 57:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 86 · shots 453–454. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
kitchen (kitchen, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in suit, dark hair, medium build visible, audible
  • woman in suit jacket and blouse, dark hair, medium build visible, audible
  • man in apron over checkered shirt, dark hair, medium build visible, audible
  • man in dark coat, older, visible in kitchen scene visible
Seen happening
  • The man in the apron gestures while speaking in the kitchen. [frame:2]
Also said
“Money makes no never mind to me.” 57:51 · “That's a miracle habit you'll have to leave at the end of the month.” 58:00
Seen
papers, apron, kitchen table with food, staircase
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and earnest; themes: loyalty, economic hardship, personal freedom; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, static framing, period costumes

A man and a woman stand in a room holding papers and speaking; later, a man in an apron stands in a kitchen with two others. The dialogue concerns a letter, refusal to leave, and working for free.

“Any word from Danny's father?” 57:31 · “I ain't going. I belong here.” 57:48 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 57:32 (passage 57:30–58:03); US record: No renewal found

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