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Little Men · Beat 230 · permalink

Garden

1:07:06–1:07:28 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 1:07:091:07:09Frame at 1:07:131:07:13Frame at 1:07:241:07:24Frame at 1:07:271:07:27

Play from 1:07:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 108 · shots 539–543. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
garden (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:4
People
  • boy in light shirt and dark pants, seen from back in group visible
  • Jack (named at t:67:10): boy in light shirt and suspenders, standing alone near fence visible
  • Danny (named at t:67:24): boy in dark shirt and bow tie, standing in group visible
  • woman in dark dress, gesturing toward children visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, standing behind woman visible
  • woman in light blouse and dark skirt, speaking with raised hand visible, audible
  • boy in light shirt, partially visible in foreground visible
Seen happening
  • A physical fight begins as children shout for help and adults react. [frame:4]
Also said
“Get back to work in your garden, Jack, quickly.” 67:21 · “Yeah, run away, you coward. I'll get you later. What's the matter with right now? Why? Danny! Dad! Oh, boy, stop it! Stop it! Oh, Danny, I'll punch you! Jack, Jack, get up! Tyler, Tyler, help me!” 67:24
Seen
wooden fence, garden tools, buttercup flowers, suspender pants
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: childhood conflict, family financial stress, social class tension; style notes: medium shots of group interactions, close-ups on expressive faces, outdoor natural lighting with shadows suggesting late afternoon

A group of adults and children are gathered outdoors where a confrontation occurs; one boy is told to return to his garden, another boy taunts him, and a physical altercation begins. A man in suspenders stands alone near a wooden fence as the group reacts to the fight.

“Now, what's all this about? He said my father stole your money, and that's why you're selling buttercups.” 67:10 · “We're selling buttercup because we have bills to pay.” 67:17 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 1:07:09 (passage 1:07:06–1:07:28); US record: No renewal found

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