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Private office

2:44–3:05 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 2:462:46Frame at 2:502:50Frame at 2:572:57Frame at 3:033:03

Play from 2:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 4 · shots 12–15. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • Mrs. Doolittle (named at t:2:52): man in dark suit and bow tie, mid-adult, medium build visible, audible
  • woman with dark hair in updo, wearing patterned dress, visible from side visible
Seen happening
  • A man bends over a desk in an office. [frame:1]
  • A man and woman sit at a desk in an office, surrounded by papers and office equipment. [frame:2]
  • A hand holds a stack of envelopes or cards with ornate borders. [frame:3]
  • A person in light-colored pants and hat stands near a staircase with wooden balusters. [frame:4]
Also said
“Mrs. Doolittle.” 2:52 · “It makes me very happy.” 2:54
Seen
desk [frame:2], office chair [frame:2], envelopes/cards [frame:3], staircase with wooden balusters [frame:4], hat [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, transactional; themes: correspondence, office work, social formality; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costume and set design

A man in a suit is seen in an office setting with a woman, handling papers and speaking. A staircase and interior architectural details are visible in another shot, suggesting a multi-room house or office building.

“Let's get down to work.” 2:45 · “Grand Falls, Nebraska. Mrs. Doodiddle.” 2:49 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 2:46 (passage 2:44–3:05); US record: No renewal found

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