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Little Men · Beat 54 · permalink

Town square

17:44–18:03 Released 1940; registered 1941

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Frame at 17:4517:45Frame at 17:4917:49Frame at 17:5117:51Frame at 17:5917:59

Play from 17:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 27 · shots 142–147. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
town_square (town square, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • boy in sailor suit, young, thin visible
  • boy in dark coat and cap, young, thin visible
  • woman in dark dress and hat, adult visible
  • child in light dress, young visible
  • boy in shirt and tie, standing on fence, young visible
  • group of children and adults crossing bridge visible
  • Teddy (named at t:17:49): unseen speaker audible
  • Annie (named at t:17:45): unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • Children and adults stand near a horse and a wooden fence. [frame:2]
  • A boy stands on a wooden fence pointing. [frame:3]
  • People run across a wooden bridge. [frame:4]
Also said
“Quiet.” 17:54
Seen
horse [frame:1], wooden fence [frame:3], wooden bridge [frame:4], onion pack [t:17:49]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and chaotic; themes: childhood urgency, community response, rural setting; style notes: medium shots with wide framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, dynamic movement across frames

A group of children and adults gather near a horse and a wooden bridge; one child shouts about a pet in an onion pack while another points from a fence. People then cross the bridge in a hurry.

“Take care of Annie for me. Mommy! Mommy!” 17:45 · “What is it, Teddy? Buttercup is in the onion pack. Oh, dear.” 17:49 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 17:45 (passage 17:44–18:03); US record: No renewal found

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