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Little Men · Beat 3 · permalink

Private office

1:25–2:21 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 1:251:25Frame at 1:331:33Frame at 2:052:05Frame at 2:182:18

Play from 1:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends. Sequence 3 · shots 2–6. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • woman, light-colored hair styled up, wearing a dark patterned blouse, visible from waist up visible
  • man, dark hair, wearing a dark suit and bow tie, holding a hat, standing visible
Seen happening
  • The scene opens on a dark screen. [frame:1]
  • A street scene with people, a horse-drawn carriage, and trees is shown. [frame:2]
  • A woman sorts mail at a desk while a man stands beside her holding a hat. [frame:3]
  • A newspaper ad for a steel engraved portrait is displayed. [frame:4]
Also said
“I were interested in your boudoir habits, I'd say you got out on the wrong side of the bed this morning. Aren't you ever happy? Happy. Look at that stack of mail and I've got to answer it. Ah, that new little ad I wrote is working.” 2:03 · “Beautify your home with a genuine steel engraved portrait of the father of his country.” 2:16
Seen
mail [frame:3], hat [frame:3], newspaper ad [frame:4], desk [frame:3], file cabinet [frame:3]
On screen
With Genuine Steel Engraved Portrait of the FATHER COUNTRY this Send Send to... yours they last- MASS. ADDRESS BOX
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: mildly exasperated and transactional; themes: workplace routine, advertising, domestic life; style notes: black and white, medium shots, studio lighting, period costume, static camera

A woman and a man are in an office-like interior; the woman is sorting mail while the man stands nearby. A newspaper ad for a steel engraved portrait is shown, and dialogue indicates the woman is annoyed by her workload.

“Oh, good morning, Stella. Yeah, what's good about it?” 1:54 · “Well, I'll try again. A good, good morning to you, Stella.” 1:58 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 1:25 (passage 1:25–2:21); US record: No renewal found

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