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Little Men · Beat 239 · permalink

Sidewalk

1:10:11–1:10:33 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 1:10:131:10:13Frame at 1:10:241:10:24

Play from 1:10:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 110 · shots 568–569. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, wearing a top hat, dark suit, bow tie, holding a paper and a bottle visible, audible
  • man wearing a bowler hat, light-colored vest, dark jacket, holding a paper visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a top hat sits on a bench holding a paper and a bottle. [frame:1]
  • Two men sit facing each other on a bench, both holding papers, engaged in conversation. [frame:2]
Also said
“I'd start an investigation. Do you think I can stand the cops digging into my past? You ain't got no record. Where are they going to find out? Everything, including the fact that I was never married.” 70:19 · “It would have plenty to do with it if Danny ever heard that his father wasn't married.” 70:30
Seen
top hat, bowler hat, bottle, paper, bench, street lamp, building facade
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and secretive; themes: secrets, fatherhood, social reputation, legal consequences; style notes: medium two-shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, period costume, static camera

Two men in formal attire sit and talk on a bench; one holds a paper and a bottle. The dialogue concerns a bank failure, an investigation, and a secret about marriage status.

“Why don't you tell a professor that he's already the truth? That the bank failed?” 70:12 · “Don't be a fool.” 70:18 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 1:10:13 (passage 1:10:11–1:10:33); US record: No renewal found

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