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Little Men · Beat 61 · permalink

Living room

19:06–19:10 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 19:0819:08

Play from 19:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 31 · shots 162–162. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, dark coat, dark hair, medium build visible, audible
  • Nan (named at t:19:06): woman, light dress, light hair, medium build visible
Seen
wall sconces [frame:1], window with panes [frame:1], dark coat [frame:1], light dress [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, restrained; themes: authority, obedience, domestic hierarchy; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s studio films

A man in a dark coat and a woman in a light dress stand facing each other in a room with a window and wall sconces. The man speaks, telling the woman she may be excused.

“Nan, that's enough for now.” 19:06 · “You may be excused.” 19:08 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 19:08 (passage 19:06–19:10); US record: No renewal found

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