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Little Men · Beat 235 · permalink

Private office

1:08:42–1:09:04 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 1:08:471:08:47Frame at 1:08:511:08:51Frame at 1:08:541:08:54Frame at 1:09:001:09:00

Play from 1:08:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 109 · shots 556–559. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in a dark suit and bowler hat, holding papers visible, audible
  • young man in a suit with a white collar, standing near a stone wall visible
  • woman in a dark dress with a white collar, standing near p2 visible
  • man in a suit, seen from behind, facing p1 visible
  • woman in a light dress, standing near p1 visible
Also said
“B-U-R-D-O-E.” 68:59 · “Is that him? Yeah, that's him. Oh, now listen, kid. Tell me everything. You know, these city papers eat up stuff like this. Now begin at the beginning and make it fast. I've got to get this on the wild.” 69:02
Seen
stone wall, wall-mounted lamp, papers, bowler hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: conflict, reporting, youth rebellion; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast lighting, static camera, period costumes

A group of people, including a man in a hat and a young man in a suit, are gathered in a stone-walled room. A reporter asks for details about a fight involving a boy named Jack and a man named Daniel Burdoe, intending to write a story for city papers.

“They were punching up and terrible. First Dan was on top, then Jack. Now, wait a minute, wait a minute. Let me get this straight. The boy Jack called his father a thief, and the little viper went after him. Said he'd kill him for it.” 68:43 · “And he made it too. Yeah, and then this Daniel, uh... How do you spell that last name again, please?” 68:53 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 1:08:47 (passage 1:08:42–1:09:04); US record: No renewal found

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