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Street

10:10–10:46 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 10:1110:11Frame at 10:1410:14Frame at 10:1710:17Frame at 10:3310:33

Play from 10:10 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 74–77. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in top hat, dark suit, bow tie, holding a bottle visible, audible
  • man in dark suit and hat, standing beside woman visible
  • woman in dark dress and hat, standing beside p2 visible
  • man in dark jacket, seated, receiving remedy visible
  • man in light jacket, bending over p4 visible
  • boy in light shirt, standing near stall visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a top hat stands at a stall addressing a crowd. [frame:1]
  • A man bends over a seated man to administer a remedy. [frame:2]
  • A man in a jacket leans in close to a seated man's face. [frame:3]
  • The man in the top hat holds up a bottle while speaking. [frame:4]
Also said
“Put some in his coffee. If he doesn't drink coffee, put it in his tea. If he doesn't drink tea, put it in his milk. If he doesn't drink milk, put it in his water. And if he doesn't drink water, I wouldn't sell you this bottle for $100 because your loved one is too far gone. But I am selling it for $1 a bottle to those who feel there is still a chance.” 10:21 · “My son will pass among you with a limited number of bottles of this precious remedy.” 10:40
Seen
bottle, top hat, sign reading 'SPECIAL PRICE TODAY ONLY $1.00', stall with bottles on display, bow tie, dark suit, seated chair, brick wall
On screen
SPECIAL PRICE TODAY ONLY $1.00
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: theatrical and persuasive; themes: quack medicine, public persuasion, family involvement in business; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, staged crowd scene, high-contrast lighting

A man in a top hat addresses a crowd from a stall advertising a $1 remedy, while another man administers the product to a seated man. A woman and a man stand nearby as the scene unfolds outdoors.

“Spare us any further sight of this horrible example.” 10:11 · “Ladies, it's tasteless.” 10:18 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 10:11 (passage 10:10–10:46); US record: No renewal found

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