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Little Men · Beat 216 · permalink

Garden

1:03:58–1:04:34 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 1:04:071:04:07Frame at 1:04:211:04:21Frame at 1:04:271:04:27Frame at 1:04:311:04:31

Play from 1:03:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 99 · shots 504–507. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
garden (garden, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • boy, wearing a light shirt and bow tie, dark pants, holding a small object visible
  • man in dark suit and top hat visible
  • woman in dark dress with white collar and head covering visible
  • man in dark suit with bow tie and mustache visible
Seen happening
  • A boy stands at a wooden table holding an object while a dog sits nearby. [frame:1]
  • Three adults stand near cows inside a barn. [frame:2]
  • A close-up shows a cow's face with a halter. [frame:3]
  • A man and woman stand side by side inside the barn. [frame:4]
Also said
“I think you ought to include her in the transaction.” 64:24 · “It would be very heartless of you to separate the mother and her child. You talking of heartlessness.” 64:26
Seen
wooden table, dog, cow, cow, halter, barn interior, top hat, bow tie
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and emotionally charged; themes: family conflict, moral dilemma, animal presence as part of setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium and close-up shots, natural lighting in garden, diffused interior lighting in barn

A boy stands at a wooden table with a dog nearby in an outdoor garden; inside a barn, three adults stand near cows while a close-up shows a cow's face; finally, a man and woman stand side by side inside the barn. Dialogue references a transaction, heartlessness, and separating a mother from her child.

“I know how you both must feel.” 64:20 · “How about the cab?” 64:22 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 1:04:07 (passage 1:03:58–1:04:34); US record: No renewal found

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