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Little Men · Beat 37 · permalink

Bedroom

12:33–13:08 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 12:3812:38Frame at 12:5212:52Frame at 12:5912:59Frame at 13:0613:06

Play from 12:33 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 18 · shots 95–101. 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
  • adult male, dark hair, wearing a suit jacket and bow tie, appears emotional visible, audible
  • young boy, light hair, seen in a bathtub and later in bed, wearing a nightshirt visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man stands in a bedroom holding a towel while a boy sits in a bathtub. [frame:1]
  • The man looks distressed, with a furrowed brow and downturned mouth. [frame:2]
  • The man walks across the room while the boy, now in a nightshirt, watches from a bed. [frame:3]
  • The boy lies in bed, eyes closed, appearing to be asleep or resting. [frame:4]
Also said
“It's high time I was learning to depend on myself. And if you think I can't pursue a successful livelihood without your help... Gosh, Pop, you're crying. You don't want me to go. Can't we sneak out of the state or something? You've done that too often. And I'm not crying. I just got some soap in my eyes. And you wash behind your ears.” 12:49
Seen
bathtub [frame:1], towel [frame:1], bed [frame:3], nightshirt [frame:3], wallpaper [frame:1], candlestick [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and emotional; themes: parent-child conflict, growing up, emotional vulnerability; style notes: black-and-white, medium and close-up shots, dramatic lighting emphasizing facial expressions

A man speaks to a boy in a bedroom; the boy is in a bathtub and later in bed. The man appears emotional, and the dialogue suggests a conflict about the boy attending school and the man's reluctance to let him go.

“And find someone else. You have to pay him.” 12:37 · “I'm not all right. Listen Papa if you make me go to that school I'll worry myself sick about you. Never mind worrying about me.” 12:41 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 12:38 (passage 12:33–13:08); US record: No renewal found

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