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Little Men · Beat 197 · permalink

Night sky

59:50–59:52 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 59:5159:51

Play from 59:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 87 · shots 471–471. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
night sky (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: quiet; themes: night, natural scenery; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white night shot, moonlit sky with cloud texture

The frame shows a night sky with a bright full moon partially obscured by clouds. No people, objects, or on-screen text are visible, and no events are depicted or mentioned.

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 59:51 (passage 59:50–59:52); US record: No renewal found

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