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Little Men · Beat 52 · permalink

Farm

17:20–17:41 Released 1940; registered 1941

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Frame at 17:2617:26Frame at 17:3317:33Frame at 17:3717:37

Play from 17:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 26 · shots 138–140. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
farm (farm, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • adult woman in period dress, holding a child visible
  • adult man in hat and coat, gesturing visible
  • child in period clothing, visible in foreground visible
  • adult woman in bonnet and apron, raising arm visible
  • unspecified speaker audible
Seen happening
  • People are gathered outdoors near a wooden building and fence with animals. [frame:1]
  • A group of people, including children, are clustered near a doorway with a horse and cart nearby. [frame:2]
  • A woman holds a child while others look on in a crowded outdoor scene. [frame:3]
Also said
“What's all the excitement about it? We just got to get back into. Well, I only went to the village for an hour. You might think I've been to China.” 17:35
Seen
wooden fence, horse and cart, wooden building, period clothing
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted and bustling; themes: community gathering, return from errand, childhood adventure; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, period costumes, crowded composition

A group of people, including children and adults, are gathered outdoors near a wooden building and a fence with animals. One person speaks about Christopher Columbus and returning from a village, while others react with excitement.

“Christopher Columbus.” 17:23 · “Here you are, Asia.” 17:33 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 17:26 (passage 17:20–17:41); US record: No renewal found

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