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Little Men · Beat 47 · permalink

Living room

15:58–16:15 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 16:0116:01Frame at 16:0516:05Frame at 16:1016:10Frame at 16:1316:13

Play from 15:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 22 · shots 126–130. 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, dark hair, wearing a dark suit and bow tie, seated visible
  • Willie (named at t:16:00): man, middle-aged, dark hair, wearing a dark suit and bow tie, standing then seated visible, audible
Seen happening
  • One man stands beside a table with a globe while another sits. [frame:1]
  • One man holds a small object near his face. [frame:2]
  • One man holds up a dark object, possibly a cane or stick. [frame:3]
  • One man sits in an armchair, leaning back, with a bowl of fruit on a table nearby. [frame:4]
Also said
“and she brought me Danny. Danny? Who's Danny? Danny.” 16:06 · “You mean you still got that brat?” 16:13
Seen
globe [frame:1], table with cloth [frame:1], armchair [frame:4], bowl of fruit [frame:4], cane or stick [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confused; themes: identity, memory, parental responsibility; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costume, interior set with ornate wallpaper

Two men are in a room with patterned wallpaper and a globe; one seated, one standing, then seated again. Dialogue suggests confusion over identity and a child named Danny.

“Wait a minute. Maybe I did drown and don't know it.” 15:58 · “But you don't sound like you and you don't look like you. I haven't been me, Willie.” 16:00 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 16:01 (passage 15:58–16:15); US record: No renewal found

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