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Little Men · Beat 250 · permalink

Sidewalk

1:13:44–1:14:00 Released 1940; registered 1941

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Frame at 1:13:521:13:52

Play from 1:13:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 114 · shots 587–587. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Pavel (named at t:73:47): adult male, wearing a top hat and dark coat, curly hair visible, audible
  • Bob (named at t:73:52): younger person, light-colored shirt, embraced by p1 visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Pavel embraces Bob outdoors. [frame:1]
Seen
top hat, wooden building with window, stone wall or foundation
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: emotional and consoling; themes: father-son relationship, comfort in adversity, reassurance; style notes: medium close-up, black-and-white, natural outdoor lighting, static framing

A man in a top hat embraces a younger person outdoors near a wooden building. The transcript includes a comforting exchange where one person calls the other 'son' and mentions others saying terrible things about 'Bob'.

“- Thank you, my son. - Oh, Pavel, I'm not.” 73:47 · “There, there, son. I feel the sensation. Oh, Bob, they've been saying terrible things about you. I know all about it.” 73:52 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 1:13:52 (passage 1:13:44–1:14:00); US record: No renewal found

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