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Little Men · Beat 63 · permalink

Living room

19:31–19:45 Released 1940; registered 1941

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Frame at 19:3619:36Frame at 19:4319:43

Play from 19:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 31 · shots 166–167. 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, adult, medium build, wearing dark formal suit and bow tie visible, audible
  • woman, adult, wearing patterned dress with white collar and cuffs, hair styled up visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man and woman stand together in a room with a large framed picture and curtains. [frame:1]
  • The woman turns away from the man, appearing distressed, while he looks at her. [frame:2]
Also said
“He's going to sell it to a man who won't.” 19:40 · “Oh, my darling.” 19:44
Seen
framed picture [frame:1], curtains [frame:1], bookshelf [frame:2], glass dome on stand [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and emotional; themes: financial pressure, emotional response to bad news; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costume and set design

A man and a woman stand in a room with period furnishings; the man speaks about a financial condition for keeping a house. The woman reacts emotionally to the news.

“He was quite kind but quite firm.” 19:32 · “And he reminded me that unless we have $5,000 to buy the house with our leases up,” 19:34 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 19:36 (passage 19:31–19:45); US record: No renewal found

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