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Little Men · Beat 238 · permalink

Train station

1:10:01–1:10:11 Released 1940; registered 1941

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Frame at 1:10:041:10:04Frame at 1:10:091:10:09

Play from 1:10:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 110 · shots 566–567. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
train station (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, top hat, bow tie, holding paper and cane visible, audible
  • man in light suit, bowler hat, polka-dot bow tie, seated on bench visible, audible
Also said
“Wait a minute, I got the solution? It's the one I didn't think of before.” 70:08
Seen
Western Union sign, luggage, bench, cane, paper
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: resigned, slightly comic; themes: return to starting point, sudden insight, travel; style notes: medium shots, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white, period costume

Two men in period suits and hats are seated on a bench in a covered outdoor area with luggage; one speaks about gratitude and returning to the start, then claims to have a solution. The setting includes a Western Union sign and other people in the background.

“That's gratitude for you.” 70:02 · “Well, here we are, right back where we started.” 70:05 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 1:10:04 (passage 1:10:01–1:10:11); US record: No renewal found

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