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Little Men · Beat 67 · permalink

Living room

21:37–21:53 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 21:3821:38Frame at 21:4021:40Frame at 21:4621:46Frame at 21:5121:51

Play from 21:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 31 · shots 178–181. 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, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • woman in patterned dress with white collar, dark hair visible, audible
  • man in dark suit and bow tie, mustache visible, audible
  • Asia (named at t:21:42): woman in checkered dress and apron, dark hair in bun visible, audible
  • man in buggy, seen from back visible, mentioned
  • boy in buggy, seen from back visible, mentioned
Seen happening
  • A woman and a man stand inside a room, looking toward a window. [frame:1]
  • A maid named Asia points out the window, speaking about an undertaker. [frame:2]
  • The man and woman stand together, looking out the window. [frame:3]
  • Asia looks out the window at a buggy with two men and a boy. [frame:4]
Also said
“But he couldn't have picked up a better time to come.” 21:45 · “He's in that buggy with a boy and another man. Look yonder.” 21:49
Seen
buggy, window with curtains, checkered dress and apron, dark suit and bow tie, patterned dress with white collar
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and ironic; themes: unwelcome arrival, social propriety, death and timing; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costumes, interior framing focused on character reactions

Two adults and a maid discuss an unexpected visitor, an undertaker, who has arrived in a buggy with a boy and another man. The group observes him from inside a house, looking out a window.

“Undertaker?” 21:38 · “No, Asia, we didn't send for an undertaker.” 21:42 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 21:38 (passage 21:37–21:53); US record: No renewal found

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