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Little Men · Beat 194 · permalink

Farm

59:08–59:39 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 59:1359:13Frame at 59:2159:21Frame at 59:2859:28Frame at 59:3459:34

Play from 59:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 86 · shots 463–467. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(farm, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • adult man, dark suit, pointing gesture visible, audible
  • child, light dress, standing near cow visible
  • child, dark vest and bowtie, leaning on fence visible
  • child, light dress, walking out of barn visible
  • child, dark pants and vest, walking out visible
  • adult woman, long light dress, near cow visible
  • child, light dress, holding doll visible
  • child, dark shirt, standing near door visible
Seen happening
  • Children and adults gather around a cow in a barn. [frame:1]
  • An adult man gestures toward the children, directing them to leave. [frame:2]
  • Children begin to move away from the cow as adults remain. [frame:3]
  • Children exit the barn while adults stay inside. [frame:4]
Also said
“Get outside! Don't worry.” 59:28 · “Okay, there's always something to worry about. Now it's Buttercup.” 59:34
Seen
cow [frame:1], wooden fence [frame:2], barn interior with hay [frame:1], stone wall outside barn [frame:4], child's doll [frame:3], adult man's dark suit [frame:2], child's bowtie [frame:2], barn doors [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: gentle urgency mixed with reassurance; themes: childhood innocence, family care, rural life, transition and reassurance; style notes: medium shots, static camera, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s studio films, group composition focused on interaction

A group of children and adults are gathered in a barn where a cow named Buttercup is about to give birth; an adult man directs the children to leave the barn while reassuring them the cow will be fine. The scene ends with the children exiting the barn as the man and a woman remain inside.

“Poor Buddycuff. Do something for Aunt Jo. Don't let Buddycuff go. I won't, Teddy. Is Buddycuff gonna get well? Buddycuff's gonna be all right now, don't you worry.” 59:08 · “Now you children are all gonna get out of here because the stork's gonna bring Buttercup a new little calf. Goody, goody, Daddy! Now go on, get out, all of you, get outside.” 59:18 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 59:13 (passage 59:08–59:39); US record: No renewal found

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