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1:22:03–1:22:18 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 1:22:051:22:05Frame at 1:22:121:22:12

Play from 1:22:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 119 · shots 655–656. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a top hat and dark suit with bow tie, middle-aged, medium build visible, audible
  • man wearing a bowler hat and light vest, middle-aged, medium build visible, audible
  • man in dark hat and coat, standing behind p1 and p2, partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a top hat speaks to another man in a bowler hat. [frame:2]
Seen
horse [frame:1], stone wall [frame:1], wooden stall [frame:1], top hat [frame:2], bowler hat [frame:2], bow tie [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comic and absurd; themes: imprisonment, absurd authority, comedy of manners; style notes: medium shot of three men in period costume; high-contrast black-and-white lighting; static framing

Three men in period attire converse outdoors near a stone-walled structure; one wears a top hat. A horse is visible in a stall. Dialogue mentions being taken to Steve Penitentiary and references a warden and 'bridle sweep.'

“Say, Constable, where are you taking us? The Steve Penitentiary.” 82:06 · “You hear that, Major? We're lucky to stay ten. That's me, Alma Mater. The warden will be so happy to get his ticker back, he'll probably give us the bridle sweep.” 82:09 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 1:22:05 (passage 1:22:03–1:22:18); US record: No renewal found

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