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Little Men · Beat 28 · permalink

Street

9:18–9:32 Released 1940; registered 1941

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Frame at 9:199:19Frame at 9:229:22Frame at 9:269:26Frame at 9:309:30

Play from 9:18 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 17 · shots 63–66. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in top hat and formal coat, standing on platform visible
  • man in vest and white shirt, standing in doorway visible
  • man in bowler hat, embracing another man visible
  • man in dark coat, being embraced visible
  • crowd of men in hats, visible in foreground visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a top hat gestures to a crowd from a platform. [frame:1]
  • A man in a vest stands in a doorway with a 'LAGER' sign. [frame:2]
  • Two men embrace near a sign reading 'ONLY $1'. [frame:3]
  • The man in the top hat points emphatically. [frame:4]
Seen
Saloon and Gambling Hall sign, LAGER sign on door, ONLY $1 sign, top hat, bowler hat
On screen
Ui BLING OON
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dramatic and public; themes: public address, social gathering, economic signage; style notes: medium and close shots, high-contrast lighting, period costumes

A man in a top hat addresses a crowd outside a saloon and gambling hall, while another man in a vest stands in a doorway marked 'LAGER', and two men embrace near a sign advertising 'ONLY $1'.

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 9:19 (passage 9:18–9:32); US record: No renewal found

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