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Little Men · Beat 36 · permalink

Bedroom

12:12–12:33 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 12:1512:15Frame at 12:2012:20Frame at 12:2712:27Frame at 12:3112:31

Play from 12:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 18 · shots 90–94. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • boy, wet, in a tub, covered in suds visible, audible
  • man, wearing an apron over trousers and shirt, later a vest and bow tie visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The boy is visible in a tub while the man stands nearby holding clothes. [frame:1]
  • The boy looks up from the tub. [frame:2]
  • The boy is shown in the tub with suds on his chest. [frame:3]
  • The man is shown in a vest and bow tie, looking concerned. [frame:4]
Also said
“What happened, Pop?” 12:24 · “You don't think I can make a living without you? What would you do?” 12:31
Seen
tub [frame:1], apron [frame:1], vest and bow tie [frame:4], clothes [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: generational conflict, dependence, economic survival; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costume

A boy in a tub speaks to a man in an apron who is holding clothes; the man later appears in a vest and bow tie. The dialogue suggests a disagreement about the boy's future and financial dependence.

“Gee Pop, won't you change your mind?” 12:13 · “Some fields are very nice school. You'll like it there. You couldn't get along without me. You know you couldn't. It's you I'm thinking of, Pop. Are you insinuating that you have been supporting me?” 12:16 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 12:15 (passage 12:12–12:33); US record: No renewal found

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