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1:03:30–1:03:31 Released 1940; registered 1941

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1:03:30

Play from 1:03:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 98 · shots 499–499. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place

shop (shop, interior) evidence: frame:1

People

partially visible behind glass, wearing dark clothing visible
partially visible behind glass, wearing light-colored clothing visible

Seen

Notice to Vacate sign [frame:1]

On screen

NOTICE TO VACATE To the person or persons occupying the premises known as...

Interpretation

Model opinion, not evidence: mood: static, documentary; themes: displacement, legal notice, urban setting; style notes: medium shot through glass, high contrast lighting, text-focused composition

A notice to vacate is displayed on a window, with two people visible behind it. No dialogue or action is captured in this beat.

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 1:03:30 (passage 1:03:30–1:03:31); US record: No renewal found

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Card image: https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/little_men/b214.png
Figure for a newsletter or page: <figure><a href="https://publicreel.org/moment/little_men/b214"><img src="https://publicreel.org/atlas-img/little_men/0499.webp" alt="Frame from Little Men (1940) at 1:03:30 (passage 1:03:30–1:03:31); US record: No renewal found" width="640"></a><figcaption>Little Men (1940), 1:03:30–1:03:31. Internet Archive copy little_men; US record: No renewal found. Via Public Reel.</figcaption></figure>
Cite: Public Reel, "Little Men (1940), 1:03:30–1:03:31", https://publicreel.org/moment/little_men/b214, from Internet Archive item little_men, retrieved 6 September 2026.

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Evidence and details

The record

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