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Little Men · Beat 32 · permalink

Street

10:46–11:03 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 10:5110:51Frame at 10:5710:57Frame at 11:0011:00Frame at 11:0211:02

Play from 10:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 17 · shots 78–81. 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, frame:3
People
  • boy in suit, bow tie, and hat, holding a bottle and a box of bottles visible
  • man in dark suit, top hat, and bow tie, standing near brick building visible
  • man in dark suit and top hat, standing among crowd visible
  • woman in hat and coat, partially visible visible
  • man in suit, visible in background near cart visible
Seen happening
  • A boy holds up a bottle and a box of bottles while standing at a cart. [frame:1]
  • A man in a top hat and suit looks upward with a stern expression. [frame:2]
  • A crowd walks along a street with a horse-drawn carriage and a man in a top hat. [frame:3]
  • The man in the top hat gestures with his hand while speaking. [frame:4]
Also said
“First come, first served. Thank you, lady. Thank you.” 10:46 · “Another father restored to the bosom of his family. Sorry, lady. Only one bottle to a customer.” 10:46
Seen
bottle [frame:1], box of bottles [frame:1], horse-drawn carriage [frame:3], top hat [frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], cart with sign [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted and commercial, with a hint of social commentary; themes: salesmanship, public spectacle, social class, family; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots and close-ups, studio lighting on outdoor set, period costumes

A man in a suit and top hat sells bottles from a cart on a street while speaking to customers. Another man in a top hat and suit reacts with surprise or disapproval nearby. The scene includes a crowd and a horse-drawn carriage.

“Here you are, ladies. Step right up while they last.” 10:46 · “For today only. A ten dollar bottle of Bertels Bitter's for only one dollar.” 10:46 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 10:51 (passage 10:46–11:03); US record: No renewal found

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