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Little Men · Beat 206 · permalink

Farm

1:00:52–1:01:25 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 1:01:011:01:01Frame at 1:01:131:01:13Frame at 1:01:211:01:21Frame at 1:01:241:01:24

Play from 1:00:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 93 · shots 482–486. 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
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • child in light nightgown, curly hair, sleeping visible
  • woman in checkered dress, apron, standing among children visible
  • child holding teddy bear, among group visible
  • child in light shirt, leaning on railing visible
  • Silas (named at t:61:22): man in dark clothes, standing near doorway visible
  • woman in light dress, visible in doorway visible
  • child in light nightgown, standing outside visible
  • child in dark clothes, standing outside visible
Seen happening
  • A group of people, including children, stand outside a stone house at night. [frame:1]
  • Children and adults gather around a woman in a checkered dress. [frame:2]
  • A child sleeps in a chair indoors. [frame:3]
  • A woman stands in a doorway, and a man stands near a stone wall. [frame:4]
Also said
“Christopher Poulombus the stork must be awful strong to carry a big baby like that. That's right, Bobby.” 61:10 · “I'll bring you some coffee, Silas.” 61:22
Seen
stone house [frame:1], teddy bear [frame:2], wooden railing [frame:2], leather chair [frame:3], wooden door with X-bracing [frame:4], stone wall [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: calm and domestic; themes: family, childhood, rural life; style notes: black-and-white, medium and close shots, naturalistic lighting for night scenes, group compositions

A group of people, including children, are gathered outside a stone house at night; one child is seen sleeping indoors. A woman mentions bringing coffee to Silas, and someone comments on a baby calf and a stork.

“I'm going to go.” 60:56 · “Isn't she pretty?” 61:08 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 1:01:01 (passage 1:00:52–1:01:25); US record: No renewal found

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