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Little Men · Beat 219 · permalink

Barn

1:05:00–1:05:20 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 1:05:041:05:04Frame at 1:05:111:05:11Frame at 1:05:171:05:17Frame at 1:05:191:05:19

Play from 1:05:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 101 · shots 514–517. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
barn (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark coat and hat, standing near calf visible
  • Mr. Reynolds (named at t:65:05): man in dark coat and top hat, standing beside p1 visible
  • man in dark coat, seated, looking down visible
  • Silas (named at t:65:14): man in dark coat and top hat, standing beside p3 visible
  • woman in light blouse with dark hair, holding papers visible
  • man in dark coat with mustache, standing beside p5 visible
Seen happening
  • A man admires a calf in a barn while others look on. [frame:1]
  • Two men stand near a seated man in a barn. [frame:2]
  • A woman holds papers while a man stands beside her in a barn. [frame:3]
  • The same woman and man remain in the barn, looking forward. [frame:4]
Mentioned
  • It is mentioned that Father broke the head of the gates. [t:65:18]
Also said
“Your dairy? Silas.” 65:14 · “We're selling buttercup and her calf to Mr Reynolds.” 65:16
Seen
calf [frame:1], wooden gate [frame:1], papers [frame:3], top hat [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: property ownership, family conflict, rural economy; style notes: medium shots, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s studio films

In a barn, a man praises a calf while others discuss selling it; a woman holds papers as a man stands beside her. The dialogue reveals a disagreement over ownership and a plan to sell the calf and its mother.

“Right pretty little calf, isn't she, Mr. Reynolds? They don't come any prettier. They don't come any prettier.” 65:05 · “She's going to be the pride of my dairy.” 65:09 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 1:05:04 (passage 1:05:00–1:05:20); US record: No renewal found

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