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Little Men · Beat 62 · permalink

Living room

19:10–19:31 Released 1940; registered 1941

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Frame at 19:1419:14Frame at 19:1819:18Frame at 19:2519:25

Play from 19:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 31 · shots 163–165. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman in a patterned dress with a white collar, dark hair styled up, holding gloves visible
  • woman in a light-colored dress, seen from behind, exiting through a doorway visible
Seen happening
  • A woman stands in a room holding gloves. [frame:1]
  • A woman in a patterned dress looks toward the camera with a stern expression. [frame:2]
  • A woman holds a white cloth and gestures while speaking. [frame:3]
Also said
“What a perfect lady.” 19:25 · “What did Mr Reynolds say?” 19:30
Seen
round table with cloth, armchair with tufted upholstery, curtained window, wall-mounted lamp, gloves, white cloth
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and corrective; themes: social etiquette, generational conflict, female comportment; style notes: medium shots, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s studio production

A woman in a patterned dress stands in a decorated room while another woman exits through a doorway; dialogue suggests a reprimand about manners. No names are spoken that identify the individuals.

“Nan!” 19:14 · “Is that the way you were taught to leave the presence of your elders?” 19:17 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 19:14 (passage 19:10–19:31); US record: No renewal found

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