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Rural yard

17:05–17:15 Released 1940; registered 1941

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Frame at 17:1017:10

Play from 17:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 135–135. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
rural yard (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Seen
wooden structure with thatched roof [frame:1], tall grasses and reeds [frame:1], trees and foliage [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: still and quiet; themes: rural life, nature; style notes: static wide shot, high-contrast black-and-white, naturalistic setting

A black-and-white outdoor scene shows a rustic wooden structure with a thatched roof, surrounded by tall grasses and trees. No people or movement are visible in the single frame provided.

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 17:10 (passage 17:05–17:15); US record: No renewal found

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