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Little Men · Beat 195 · permalink

Farm

59:39–59:49 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 59:4359:43Frame at 59:4859:48

Play from 59:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 86 · shots 468–469. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
farm (farm, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, mid-adult, wearing light-colored blouse, holding a child visible
  • child, young boy, wearing white shirt and dark tie, looking upward visible
  • man, adult, dark suit, standing left, profile view visible
  • man, adult, light shirt, bow tie, leaning on wooden structure visible
  • man, adult, light shirt, suspenders, standing behind cart visible
Seen happening
  • A woman holds a child and looks upward. [frame:1]
  • The child continues to look upward while being held. [frame:2]
Also said
“You just keep your eyes peeled, Teddy.” 59:40 · “You'll be showing up soon.” 59:40
Seen
wooden bench or cart [frame:1], barn or wooden structure [frame:1], child's necktie [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: playful and lighthearted; themes: childhood imagination, family interaction, rural setting; style notes: medium shot, black-and-white, natural outdoor lighting, group composition with central focus on woman and child

A woman holds a young boy while looking upward; other people are visible in the background. The transcript includes a child asking if a shark will fly over a barn, and an adult responding affirmatively.

“Daddy, will a shark fly over the barn?” 59:40 · “You certainly will.” 59:40 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 59:43 (passage 59:39–59:49); US record: No renewal found

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