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Little Men · Beat 51 · permalink

Garden

17:15–17:20 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 17:1717:17Frame at 17:1917:19

Play from 17:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 25 · shots 136–137. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
garden (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • woman wearing a dark hat and coat, smiling visible
  • man wearing a cap and dark jacket, leaning on a fence visible
Seen happening
  • A woman in a carriage smiles at the camera. [frame:1]
  • A man leans on a wooden fence in a garden. [frame:2]
Seen
carriage, wooden fence, hat, cap
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light and conversational; themes: social interaction, outdoor setting; style notes: medium shots, outdoor natural lighting, period costume

A woman in a hat smiles while seated in a carriage; a man in a cap leans on a wooden fence in a garden. The transcript includes a spoken line addressing 'Mrs. Baird'.

“Darling. Come on, Mrs. Baird.” 17:17 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 17:17 (passage 17:15–17:20); US record: No renewal found

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