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14:31–14:33 Released 1940; registered 1941

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Frame at 14:3214:32

Play from 14:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 21 · shots 112–112. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Hand in a dark suit sleeve, holding a poster; no face or full body visible visible
  • William Deming (named at frame:1): Black-and-white photo of a man with dark hair and a serious expression, printed on a poster visible
Seen happening
  • A hand holds up a reward poster for William Deming, alias Willie the Kid, for bank robbery. [frame:1]
Seen
Reward poster, Hand
On screen
The Protective will for the of $5000.00 REWARD WANTED FOR BANK ROBBERY The National Bankers' Protective League will Pay $5000 for the arrest of WILLIAM DEMING alias WILLIE THE KID
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: Tense, urgent; themes: Crime, Reward, Public notice; style notes: Close-up shot with high-contrast lighting; black-and-white film; focus on printed text and photo to convey information

A hand holds a reward poster offering $5000 for the arrest of William Deming, alias Willie the Kid, for bank robbery. The poster is from the National Bankers' Protective League and is shown in a close-up shot.

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 14:32 (passage 14:31–14:33); US record: No renewal found

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