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Little Men · Beat 26 · permalink

Shop

8:43–8:51 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 8:458:45Frame at 8:478:47Frame at 8:508:50

Play from 8:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 17 · shots 56–58. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(shop, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • boy, light hair, wearing a white shirt and dark suspenders with a bow tie visible
  • adult man, dark hair, wearing a vest and patterned tie, holding paper money visible, audible
Seen
paper money [frame:2], bottle on counter [frame:2], wooden counter [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: negotiation, youth versus authority; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static framing

A boy in suspenders speaks to an adult man holding money across a counter in an indoor setting. The man says the cost will be $4 and that it will cost them all they have on reason.

“It'll cost you $4, boys.” 8:46 · “It'll cost you all you got on reason.” 8:49 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 8:45 (passage 8:43–8:51); US record: No renewal found

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