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Little Men · Beat 56 · permalink

Field

18:29–18:50 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 18:3118:31Frame at 18:3718:37Frame at 18:4218:42Frame at 18:4918:49

Play from 18:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 27 · shots 151–157. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • child in light shirt, visible in frame:1 and frame:4 visible
  • child in dark hat and bow tie, visible in frame:3 visible
  • woman in dark hat and dress, visible in frame:3 visible, audible
  • child in light shirt, visible in frame:4 visible
  • adult male in light shirt, visible in frame:1 and frame:3 visible
  • child in dark hat, visible in frame:3 visible
Seen happening
  • A cow with flowers around its neck is visible among children and adults. [frame:1]
  • The cow looks directly at the camera. [frame:2]
  • A woman gestures toward the cow while standing with children and adults. [frame:3]
  • A child holds the cow's chain while others look on. [frame:4]
Also said
“*Mario grunts*” 18:32 · “*Screams*” 18:36
Seen
cow [frame:1], chain [frame:4], flowers [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and slightly chaotic; themes: childhood, rural life, animal presence; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, group composition

A cow adorned with flowers is present among a group of children and adults outdoors; a woman instructs the children to remove the cow quickly and blames Silas for not closing a gate. No names are spoken that identify any person visible.

“Get her out of here quickly, children.” 18:42 · “Silas, you simply must keep Buttercup's gate closed.” 18:45 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 18:31 (passage 18:29–18:50); US record: No renewal found

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