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Little Men · Beat 7 · permalink

Private office

3:06–3:13 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 3:093:09Frame at 3:123:12

Play from 3:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 5 · shots 17–18. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing bowler hat, overcoat, vest, and bow tie, holding suitcase visible
  • Willie (named at t:3:09): man in tuxedo with bow tie, smiling visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a bowler hat stands holding a suitcase in a hallway. [frame:1]
  • A man in a tuxedo smiles. [frame:2]
Seen
suitcase, bowler hat, tuxedo
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, slightly tense; themes: identity, arrival, social class; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costume

A man in a bowler hat and overcoat holds a suitcase in a hallway; another man in a tuxedo smiles nearby. The transcript includes the name 'Willie' and the phrase 'It's me.'

“Willie.” 3:09 · “It's me.” 3:11 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 3:09 (passage 3:06–3:13); US record: No renewal found

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