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Little Men · Beat 191 · permalink

Living room

58:03–58:24 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 58:0958:09Frame at 58:2058:20

Play from 58:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 86 · shots 455–456. 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, frame:2
People
  • older woman, dark skin, wearing a checkered dress with white collar and apron, hair in a headscarf visible, audible
  • woman with dark hair in an updo, wearing a dark patterned dress with white collar visible
  • older man with graying hair, wearing a dark coat over a striped shirt visible
Seen
checkered dress with white collar and apron, dark patterned dress with white collar, dark coat over striped shirt, window with sheer curtains, wooden staircase, wall-mounted shelf with decorative items
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: resolute; themes: perseverance, domestic setting, historical reference; style notes: medium close-ups, studio lighting, static framing, period costume

Two women and a man are shown in separate shots inside a house; one woman speaks about fighting at Bull Run and not quitting despite no pay. The setting includes interior furnishings and a window with curtains.

“I fought all through the battle of bull run and didn't see a penny, but I didn't quit. And I ain't quitting now. Pay or no pay. No siree.” 58:16 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 58:09 (passage 58:03–58:24); US record: No renewal found

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