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Little Men · Beat 269 · permalink

School

1:20:36–1:21:06 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 1:20:401:20:40Frame at 1:20:461:20:46Frame at 1:20:481:20:48Frame at 1:20:581:20:58

Play from 1:20:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 119 · shots 644–647. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
school (school, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:4, t:80:44
People
  • woman with dark hair in a bun, wearing a light blouse with ruffles visible
  • Mr. Fox (named at t:80:55): older man with mustache, wearing a dark suit, bow tie, and bowler hat visible, audible
  • man with dark hair, wearing a dark suit and bow tie visible
  • man with dark hair, wearing a dark suit and bow tie visible
  • child or young person, only hands visible clapping visible
Seen happening
  • A woman and an older man in a bowler hat face each other in conversation. [frame:1]
  • Three adults stand together, one man has his arm around the woman. [frame:2]
  • The man in the bowler hat looks upward with a solemn expression. [frame:3]
  • A group of people, including children, clap and cheer for the man in the bowler hat. [frame:4]
Also said
“For Mr. Fox.” 80:55 · “Hooray! Oh, Mr. Popp.” 80:56
Seen
bowler hat, stone wall, clapping hands, window with shutters
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: respectful and celebratory; themes: education, gratitude, community recognition; style notes: medium shots, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal attire suggests period setting

A group of adults and children are gathered outdoors near a stone building; one man is being cheered and acknowledged for helping the school. A woman and two men are shown in conversation, and a man in a bowler hat is singled out for applause.

“If we can teach you to follow in the footsteps of your father, we'll consider our work well done. Children.” 80:44 · “There's someone else who has also helped the school.” 80:51 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 1:20:40 (passage 1:20:36–1:21:06); US record: No renewal found

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