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Little Men · Beat 217 · permalink

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1:04:34–1:04:58 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 1:04:381:04:38Frame at 1:04:461:04:46Frame at 1:04:541:04:54Frame at 1:04:571:04:57

Play from 1:04:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 99 · shots 508–512. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • older man, mustache, wearing a top hat and dark suit visible, audible
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a light blouse and dark skirt visible
  • man, dark hair, wearing a dark coat visible
  • Silas (named at t:64:52): unseen person mentioned
Seen happening
  • A cow is shown close-up, wearing a bow. [frame:4]
Also said
“While you're looking it over, you can have your man tie buttercup and a cap to my buggy.” 64:44 · “Silas, come here. My buttercup.” 64:55
Seen
cow with bow [frame:4], top hat [frame:1], bill of sale [t:64:41], buggy [t:64:44]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and transactional; themes: commerce, animal ownership, social hierarchy; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costume

A man in a top hat speaks to a couple in a barn-like structure while a cow is present. The dialogue includes references to a bill of sale, tying a cow named Buttercup to a buggy, and calling for someone named Silas.

“Do you think we'd even talk to you about selling buttercups?” 64:34 · “Now, I've drawn up a bill of sale.” 64:41 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 1:04:38 (passage 1:04:34–1:04:58); US record: No renewal found

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