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Little Men · Beat 34 · permalink

Sidewalk

11:31–12:05 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 11:3511:35Frame at 11:4211:42Frame at 11:5711:57Frame at 12:0312:03

Play from 11:31 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 84–88. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, wearing a patterned dress and a hat with a large flower visible
  • older man, wearing a dark suit and bowler hat, arms crossed visible
  • boy, wearing a patterned jacket and bowler hat, arms crossed visible
  • older man, wearing a dark suit and bowler hat, standing with hands on hips visible
Seen happening
  • A woman and an older man stand side by side, looking forward. [frame:1]
  • An older man places his hand on a boy's shoulder; both look off to the side. [frame:2]
  • The boy and the older man remain in the same pose, looking off to the side. [frame:3]
  • Three men stand together on a sidewalk; one holds a crate of bottles. [frame:4]
Also said
“Thank you, madam.” 11:55 · “What was the name of that school? Plumfield.” 12:00
Seen
hat with large flower, bowler hat, crate of bottles, signage reading 'FIGHT MALT' and 'BUBBLE'
On screen
FIGHT MALT ay
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious and pleading; themes: childhood rights, parental responsibility, social class and education; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static framing, period costumes

A woman and two men, one older and one younger, are shown in conversation outdoors near a storefront with signage. The transcript includes a speech about a child's right to childhood and mentions a school called Plumfield.

“The best one in the state is the plum field, only 20 miles from here. You are depriving this boy of life's most priceless possession.” 11:35 · “The right to his childhood.” 11:42 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 11:35 (passage 11:31–12:05); US record: No renewal found

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