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1:09:04–1:09:27 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 1:09:081:09:08Frame at 1:09:191:09:19

Play from 1:09:04 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 109 · shots 560–561. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and hat, facing another man visible
  • man in light shirt and dark vest, facing p1 visible
  • boy in sailor-style shirt, standing to right visible
  • woman in light dress, standing between p1 and p2 visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a hat speaks to another man while a group watches. [frame:1]
  • A hand holds a small object with printed text blocks. [frame:2]
Seen
small printed object held in hand, stone wall background, hat worn by man, sailor-style shirt on boy
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or serious; themes: family, confrontation, object as evidence; style notes: medium shot with studio lighting, close-up on object, black and white

A group of people are gathered indoors, one man holds a small object with printed text. A line of dialogue refers to 'your father.'

“Now, your father.” 69:11 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 1:09:08 (passage 1:09:04–1:09:27); US record: No renewal found

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