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Little Men · Beat 44 · permalink

Living room

14:51–15:22 Released 1940; registered 1941

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Frame at 14:5814:58Frame at 15:0715:07Frame at 15:1415:14Frame at 15:2115:21

Play from 14:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 22 · shots 115–118. 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
  • man, middle-aged, wearing a dark suit, vest, and bow tie; seated in frame 1 and 2, standing in frame 3 visible, audible
  • man, middle-aged, wearing a dark suit and bow tie; seated in frame 3, visible in frame 2 visible, audible
Also said
“Well, how do you like the outfit, Major?” 15:15 · “You look like an undertaker. That's very funny. That's where I got it.” 15:18
Seen
patterned wallpaper [frame:1], wooden door [frame:1], ornate lamp [frame:2], round table with food [frame:3], dark suit and bow tie [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted and conversational; themes: disguise, accidental comedy, male camaraderie; style notes: medium close-ups and two-shots, studio lighting, static camera, period costume

A man in a dark suit and bow tie speaks while seated or standing in a room with patterned wallpaper; another man is present and reacts. The dialogue describes a carriage accident and a disguise.

“Now one day, you know, I drives his hack into town with him.” 14:52 · “Well, suddenly, he hits his jaw on my elbow like that. Well, he goes head over tea kettle into the road.” 15:02 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 14:58 (passage 14:51–15:22); US record: No renewal found

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