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Little Men · Beat 25 · permalink

Living room

8:32–8:43 Released 1940; registered 1941

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Frame at 8:348:34Frame at 8:398:39

Play from 8:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 16 · shots 54–55. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • older man, balding, wearing dark jacket, seated at table visible
  • man with dark hair, wearing white shirt and tie, seated at table visible
  • man with dark hair, wearing white shirt and vest, seated at table visible
  • man with light hair, wearing white shirt and bow tie, standing in background visible
Also said
“Lay my hand up. The stew's boiling over.” 8:39
Seen
card game on table [frame:2], sign reading 'GOOD BYE' [frame:1], lamp on table [frame:2], mirror on wall [frame:2], curtains [frame:2]
On screen
GOOD BYE
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual, domestic; themes: domestic life, social interaction, everyday interruption; style notes: static medium shots, studio lighting, period costume and set design

Three men sit at a table playing cards while another man stands in the background; one man speaks about stew boiling over. The setting is an interior room with period furnishings and a sign reading 'GOOD BYE'.

“Eat that.” 8:33 · “Danny” 8:36 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 8:34 (passage 8:32–8:43); US record: No renewal found

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