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Little Men · Beat 39 · permalink

Living room

13:12–13:22 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 13:1413:14Frame at 13:1913:19

Play from 13:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 20 · shots 103–104. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • boy, wearing a dark coat and a cap, standing in a doorway visible
  • man, wearing a tuxedo with bow tie, standing in a doorway visible
  • woman, in a tub with bubbles, hand on head, dark hair visible
Seen happening
  • A boy and a man stand facing each other in a doorway. [frame:1]
  • A woman is seen bathing in a tub. [frame:2]
Seen
tub [frame:2], tuxedo [frame:1], cap [frame:1], curtains [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: domestic, slightly tense; themes: domestic life, social class, childhood; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, studio lighting, period costumes

A man in a tuxedo speaks to a boy in a doorway; a woman is seen bathing in a tub. The dialogue references Mrs. Highbury and a tub.

“If your boy threw at the tub, Mrs. Highbury wants it in 26.” 13:12 · “Go right in.” 13:16 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 13:14 (passage 13:12–13:22); US record: No renewal found

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