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Little Men · Beat 232 · permalink

Yard

1:07:52–1:08:11 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 1:07:551:07:55Frame at 1:08:021:08:02Frame at 1:08:081:08:08

Play from 1:07:52 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 551–553. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
yard (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a top hat and dark coat visible, audible
  • woman in dark dress with white collar and ruffled neckline visible, audible
  • Emil (named at frame:3): boy in suspenders and light shirt, standing near a dog visible
  • woman in patterned dress and headscarf, holding a basket visible
  • man in dark suit, seen from behind visible
Seen happening
  • A group of people stand in a yard, including a woman holding a basket and a boy with a dog. [frame:1]
  • A man in a top hat holds a document while speaking to a woman. [frame:2]
  • A boy named Emil stands beside a dog near a wooden sign that reads 'EMIL'. [frame:3]
Mentioned
  • The transcript implies the man in the top hat is being dismissed after a dispute over an unsigned document. [t:67:55]
Also said
“But I...” 67:55 · “Bet that'll show him.” 67:55
Seen
top hat [frame:2], document [frame:2], wooden sign reading 'EMIL' [frame:3], dog [frame:3], basket [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict, authority, childhood; style notes: medium shots, outdoor natural lighting, period costume, static framing

A confrontation occurs outdoors near a rustic house; a man in a top hat is told to leave while a boy named Emil stands nearby with a dog. The transcript indicates a dispute over an unsigned document and a demand for the man to depart.

“Now, I hope the boy's not badly hurt. But this billet's saying you haven't signed it yet.” 67:55 · “And we never will. Now, you get out of here. Get out of here!” 67:55 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 1:07:55 (passage 1:07:52–1:08:11); US record: No renewal found

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