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Little Men · Beat 30 · permalink

Theatre

9:51–10:10 Released 1940; registered 1941

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Frame at 9:519:51Frame at 9:589:58Frame at 10:0710:07

Play from 9:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 17 · shots 71–73. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
theatre (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, wearing a top hat, dark suit, and bow tie, standing at a podium visible
  • man in dark suit, being held upright by p1, appears disheveled visible
  • man in suit and tie, slumped in a chair, covered with a blanket, hat on lap visible
  • man in light shirt and dark pants, standing in background visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a top hat stands at a podium and points. [frame:1]
  • A man in a top hat holds up another man who is slumped. [frame:2]
  • A man lies slumped in a chair, covered with a blanket, with a hat on his lap. [frame:3]
Seen
top hat, podium with sign reading 'SPECIAL P', brick wall with sign reading 'BEER', blanket covering a man, hat on man's lap
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dramatic and critical; themes: public shaming, fall from grace, social class; style notes: medium shots, stage-like lighting, static camera, theatrical staging

A man in a top hat addresses a crowd while another man is held up; a third man lies slumped in a chair. The speaker mentions a man from a fine family in North Carolina.

“Get up and walk.” 9:51 · “Would you believe this rum sodden wreck was once a man? Yes, he was. Comes from one of the finest families in South Carolina. North Carolina. Daniel.” 9:55 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 9:51 (passage 9:51–10:10); US record: No renewal found

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