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7:37–7:48 Released 1940; registered 1941

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Frame at 7:407:40Frame at 7:457:45

Play from 7:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 16 · shots 50–51. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, exterior) evidence: frame:1 (brick wall, foliage), frame:2 (paneled door, outdoor lighting)
People
  • man, adult, wearing top hat, bow tie, dark coat, vest, and plaid trousers visible, audible
  • child, small, wearing cap and light-colored clothing, lying in a box visible
  • person, adult, wearing dark top and light skirt or apron, standing in doorway visible
Seen happening
  • The man in the top hat stands facing the camera with a brick wall behind him. [frame:1]
  • The man bends over a child lying in a box while another person stands in a doorway behind him. [frame:2]
Seen
top hat [frame:1, frame:2], bow tie [frame:1, frame:2], box [frame:2], paneled door [frame:2], brick wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious and tense; themes: authority, childhood, confrontation; style notes: medium close-up and medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal costume, static framing

A man in formal attire speaks and then bends over a child in a box while another person stands in a doorway. The setting includes a brick wall and a paneled door.

“Here.” 7:37 · “That's all I want to know.” 7:40 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 7:40 (passage 7:37–7:48); US record: No renewal found

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