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1:10:33–1:10:48 Released 1940; registered 1941

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Frame at 1:10:361:10:36Frame at 1:10:431:10:43

Play from 1:10:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 110 · shots 570–571. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a bowler hat, suit, and bow tie, mid-adult, medium build visible, audible
  • man wearing a top hat, dark suit, and bow tie, older, thin build visible
Seen happening
  • The man in the bowler hat is visible, speaking with mouth open. [frame:1]
  • The man in the top hat is visible, sitting with hands clasped. [frame:2]
Also said
“I won't lose his love and respect.” 70:43 · “Not even if I have to steal the money to prove that I'm honest.” 70:45
Seen
bowler hat [frame:1], top hat [frame:2], wooden bench [frame:2], large trunk [frame:1], bow tie [frame:1, frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confessional; themes: moral dilemma, honesty versus deception, fear of losing respect; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal attire suggesting period drama

A man in a bowler hat speaks about being forced to confess to someone about 'Lefty' and living a lie, while another man in a top hat sits with clasped hands. The setting appears to be an indoor public space with wooden benches and large trunks.

“I'd be forced to tell him about Lefty.” 70:38 · “that I've been living a lie.” 70:40 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 1:10:36 (passage 1:10:33–1:10:48); US record: No renewal found

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