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Little Men · Beat 210 · permalink

Living room

1:01:50–1:02:15 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 1:02:021:02:02Frame at 1:02:141:02:14

Play from 1:01:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 94 · shots 491–492. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a patterned dress, holding a child visible
  • child, curly hair, light-colored nightgown, held by p1 visible, audible
  • man, dark hair, wearing a dark jacket, holding a small cow visible
  • Silas (named at t:62:04): unseen person mentioned
Seen happening
  • A woman holds a child while a man presents a small cow. [frame:1]
  • The man continues holding the cow as the scene darkens. [frame:2]
Also said
“The short brought me? Well, your ears weren't quite so big. Now then, off to bed for you. My darling, say goodnight to Silas. Goodnight.” 62:04 · “Good night.” 62:14
Seen
small cow [frame:1], furniture (sofa, table) [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tender and domestic; themes: family, childhood, domestic life; style notes: medium shot with soft lighting, focused on character interaction; second frame dimmer, suggesting scene end

A woman holds a child while a man presents a small cow; the child asks if they looked like the cow as a baby. The scene ends with the child being sent to bed and saying goodnight to someone named Silas.

“Yeah. Styliss. Yes, ma'am. Styliss, bring up a little new cow for Teddy to see. There she is. Isn't she pretty? Look at her.” 61:51 · “Did I look like that one?” 62:01 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 1:02:02 (passage 1:01:50–1:02:15); US record: No renewal found

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