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Little Men · Beat 231 · permalink

Bridge over stream

1:07:28–1:07:52 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 1:07:291:07:29Frame at 1:07:341:07:34Frame at 1:07:401:07:40Frame at 1:07:491:07:49

Play from 1:07:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 108 · shots 544–550. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bridge over stream (other, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in dark suit and bow tie, middle-aged, medium build visible
  • girl with dark hair in white blouse, young visible
  • boy in light shirt with dark bow tie, young visible
  • man in overalls, standing on bridge visible
  • child in dark clothing, partially visible visible
  • person lying on bridge, being assisted visible
  • man in light coat, assisting person on bridge visible
Seen happening
  • A group of children and adults stand on a bridge, looking concerned. [frame:1]
  • Someone falls into the water below the bridge, causing a splash. [frame:2]
  • People on the bridge lean over the railing, looking down at the person in the water. [frame:3]
  • A man in a coat helps lift the person out of the water onto the bridge. [frame:4]
Seen
wooden bridge, stream, railing, overalls
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and concerned; themes: community response, childhood accident, adult intervention; style notes: medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, group framing emphasizing collective action

A group of children and adults gather on a wooden bridge over a stream after someone falls into the water; a man in a suit and others assist the person who fell. The scene includes dialogue about going to a locker room and confirming someone is present.

“Is he all right, dear? Children!” 67:41 · “- Why don't we go to the locker room? - Yes, Angel! But I hope you're there. Wait. We got him there, Father.” 67:44 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 1:07:29 (passage 1:07:28–1:07:52); US record: No renewal found

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