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Little Men · Beat 22 · permalink

Private office

7:24–7:37 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 7:257:25Frame at 7:307:30Frame at 7:347:34Frame at 7:367:36

Play from 7:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 16 · shots 46–49. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
morning evidence: t:7:26
People
  • man, older, wearing a top hat, dark formal coat, white shirt, bow tie visible, audible
  • woman, wearing dark blouse, white apron, dark skirt, standing in doorway visible
  • child, lying in box, wearing light dress and hat visible
Seen happening
  • A child is seen lying in a box on the ground. [frame:4]
Also said
“Are you the person in charge here? I most certainly am.” 7:29
Seen
top hat [frame:1], formal coat [frame:1], box [frame:4], apron [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, confrontational; themes: authority, unexpected arrival, childhood vulnerability; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static framing

A man in a top hat and formal attire speaks to a woman in a doorway; a child lies in a box on the ground. The dialogue suggests an early morning confrontation at a residence.

“Just a minute.” 7:24 · “What are you doing here this time of the morning?” 7:26 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 7:25 (passage 7:24–7:37); US record: No renewal found

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