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Little Men · Beat 247 · permalink

Barnyard

1:13:29–1:13:34 Released 1940; registered 1941

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Frame at 1:13:311:13:31Frame at 1:13:331:13:33

Play from 1:13:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 112 · shots 583–584. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
barnyard (farm, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • adult, wearing dark pants and light shirt, sitting on ground visible
  • child, held by p1, wearing light-colored dress visible
  • adult, standing, milking cow, wearing dark clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A person is milking a cow. [frame:1]
  • A person sits on the ground holding a child. [frame:1]
  • A horse-drawn wagon is parked in the background. [frame:1]
Seen
cow [frame:1], milking bucket [frame:1], horse-drawn wagon [frame:1], wooden fence [frame:1], trees [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: calm, pastoral; themes: rural life, domestic labor, family; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot framed through trees, natural lighting, static composition

A person milks a cow in a barnyard while another person sits nearby holding a child; a horse-drawn wagon is visible in the background. The scene is outdoors, with trees and a wooden fence partially obscuring the view.

“Look!” 73:33 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 1:13:31 (passage 1:13:29–1:13:34); US record: No renewal found

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