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Little Men · Beat 227 · permalink

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1:06:53–1:07:03 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 1:06:551:06:55Frame at 1:07:001:07:00

Play from 1:06:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 105 · shots 535–536. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • boy, light hair, white shirt, dark suspenders, bow tie visible
  • group of boys, similar age, wearing shirts and suspenders visible
Seen happening
  • A boy looks off-camera with a serious expression. [frame:1]
  • A group of boys stand in a circle facing each other, appearing confrontational. [frame:2]
Seen
bow tie, suspenders, trees in background
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict, youth confrontation, truth and accusation; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up followed by medium group shot, natural outdoor lighting

A boy in a white shirt and suspenders is shown in close-up, then a group of boys confront each other outdoors. One boy is accused of lying and threatens to kill another.

“I could have told long ago if I'd have wanted to.” 66:54 · “You liar, you take that back. I won't take it back. It's the truth. Why, you... I'll kill you for that.” 66:56 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 1:06:55 (passage 1:06:53–1:07:03); US record: No renewal found

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