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Little Men · Beat 193 · permalink

Kitchen

58:45–59:08 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 58:4958:49Frame at 58:5558:55Frame at 58:5958:59Frame at 59:0459:04

Play from 58:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 86 · shots 459–462. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
kitchen (kitchen, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:4
People
  • Miss Jo (named at t:58:50): woman, dark hair in a bun, wearing a patterned dress with a white collar visible, audible
  • woman, dark hair in a bun with a bow, wearing a checkered dress with a white collar and apron visible, audible
  • man, light hair, wearing a dark coat over a striped shirt visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man reacts with alarm to the news about Buttercup. [frame:3]
  • The man turns and walks out of the kitchen. [frame:4]
Also said
“Aunt Jo, come quick. Something's the matter with Buttercup.” 58:55 · “She's lying in her stall, moaning and mooing. Come along, quickly.” 58:58
Seen
kitchen table with bowls and vegetables, wooden shelves with jars, window with daylight, staircase in background
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and anxious; themes: domestic crisis, interpersonal concern, animal welfare; style notes: medium close-ups and medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static camera

Two women and a man are in a kitchen; one woman prays for money and then alerts another about a sick cow named Buttercup. The man reacts with alarm and leaves the room.

“Dear God.” 58:46 · “Send Miss Jo some money.” 58:50 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 58:49 (passage 58:45–59:08); US record: No renewal found

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