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Little Men · Beat 261 · permalink

House

1:17:11–1:17:29 Released 1940; registered 1941

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Frame at 1:17:141:17:14Frame at 1:17:231:17:23

Play from 1:17:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 115 · shots 618–619. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
house (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light shirt and dark pants, outdoors, mid-adult visible
  • man in dark suit, indoors, mid-adult visible
  • Josephine (named at t:77:24): woman in dark dress with white collar, indoors, mid-adult visible, audible
  • unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A man walks outdoors near a house. [frame:1]
  • A man and a woman stand indoors in a room with ornate furniture. [frame:2]
Also said
“I'll get them at once.” 77:21 · “Oh, how do you do, Josephine? Good afternoon, Tom. Are you running a college here now? No, why? I just saw the man that says he goes to school here.” 77:24
Seen
house, ornate mirror or cabinet, patterned wallpaper
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: school, confrontation, social interaction; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, indoor scenes with ornate decor, outdoor scene framed through foliage

A man is seen outdoors near a house, then indoors in a room with ornate furniture. A woman speaks to a man named Josephine and mentions seeing someone who claims to attend school there.

“Get out of here. Go away, Fox. Go away, Fox. Go away. Move. Very well.” 77:11 · “Since Danny wishes it. Thank you.” 77:19 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 1:17:14 (passage 1:17:11–1:17:29); US record: No renewal found

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