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Little Men · Beat 24 · permalink

Bar

7:48–8:32 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 8:068:06Frame at 8:288:28

Play from 7:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 16 · shots 52–53. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • boy, wearing a plaid jacket and cap, seated visible
  • man, wearing a top hat and dark coat, standing visible, audible
  • man, wearing a light shirt and apron, standing behind counter visible
  • woman, seated, wearing a striped dress and apron, with hair being styled visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a top hat styles a woman's hair while another man stands nearby. [frame:1]
  • A boy sits at a bar counter while two men stand facing him. [frame:2]
Also said
“If you want to eat the free lunch, you'll have to buy a drink. What'll you have? Same as my pop. I'll spank your pants off.” 8:16 · “- Bring in the sarsaparilla. - Yes. - With a little water on the side. - Why?” 8:27
Seen
top hat, bar counter, sarsaparilla bottle, sign reading 'GOOD BYE 1ST MEAL'
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted and conversational; themes: coming of age, social interaction in public spaces, parental authority; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, period costume detail

A boy is seated while two men attend to him in a bar setting; one man speaks about curls and growing up, while another orders drinks. The scene shifts to a bar counter where a boy and two men interact over a drink order.

“Oh, you can't wear curls forever, Danny. You're a big man now. Here. Here we go on.” 7:54 · “Hi.” 8:11 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 8:06 (passage 7:48–8:32); US record: No renewal found

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