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Little Men · Beat 55 · permalink

Garden

18:03–18:29 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 18:0418:04Frame at 18:1418:14Frame at 18:2618:26

Play from 18:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 27 · shots 148–150. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
garden (farm, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • child, wearing a checkered shirt and bow tie, visible in frame 2 visible
  • adult woman, wearing a dark hat and dress, holding a child, visible in frame 2 visible
  • child, wearing a patterned dress and bow, visible in frame 2 visible
  • adult male, wearing suspenders and a hat, visible in frame 3 visible
  • group of adults and children gathered around a cow, visible in frames 1 and 3 visible
Seen happening
  • A cow is being held by a group of people in a garden. [frame:1]
  • A woman holds a child while standing next to two other children. [frame:2]
  • People gather around a cow, with one man reaching toward it. [frame:3]
Also said
“Every time she's hungry, she gets in our gardens. She's always hungry. Even ate my hollyhocks.” 18:13 · “We'll see that you take better care of her.” 18:27
Seen
cow [frame:1], wooden fence [frame:1], garden plants [frame:1], hat [frame:2], bow tie [frame:2], suspenders [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but resolved; themes: family responsibility, animal care, community decision-making; style notes: medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, group composition emphasizing social interaction

A group of people, including children and adults, gather around a cow named Buttercup in a garden or farm setting. Dialogue reveals complaints about the cow eating garden plants and suggests selling her, followed by a decision to improve her care.

“This will never do.” 18:05 · “You know what a fuss asian made the last time the milk tasted of onions.” 18:06 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 18:04 (passage 18:03–18:29); US record: No renewal found

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