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Little Men · Beat 27 · permalink

Kitchen

8:51–9:18 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 8:528:52Frame at 9:009:00Frame at 9:099:09Frame at 9:159:15

Play from 8:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 17 · shots 59–62. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
kitchen (kitchen, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, adult, wearing shirt, tie, and suspenders, standing near stove visible
  • boy, young, wearing shirt and suspenders, seated at table visible
  • man, adult, wearing top hat and formal suit, gesturing outdoors visible
  • man, adult, wearing hat and coat, seated at card table visible
  • man, adult, wearing shirt and tie, standing behind card table visible
  • crowd of adults, mixed attire, outdoors visible
Seen happening
  • A man handles objects near a stove. [frame:1]
  • A group of people, including a boy, sit around a table playing cards. [frame:2]
  • A crowd gathers outside a hotel. [frame:3]
  • A man in a top hat gestures while speaking. [frame:4]
Also said
“He bluffed you. He hasn't got a thing.” 9:00 · “How bravely you ladies stand there with a smile on your faces, but with your hearts breaking, because your loved ones stagger home night after night from dens of iniquity like that. Would that Bertels' bidders could restore this thoughtsome and jetsome back to self-respect, but he's too far gone. Nothing but a miracle could bring him back.” 9:07
Seen
stove, card table, cards, hotel sign, top hat, bow tie
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dramatic and moralizing; themes: gambling, moral decay, public spectacle; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, staged lighting, period costumes

A man in a shirt and tie handles objects near a stove, then a group including a boy plays cards at a table. Outside, a crowd gathers before a hotel, and a man in a top hat gestures while speaking. The transcript includes dialogue about bluffing and a moralizing monologue about vice.

“Take the pot.” 8:54 · “Let me see your hand.” 8:56 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 8:52 (passage 8:51–9:18); US record: No renewal found

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