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Little Men · Beat 70 · permalink

Farm

22:20–22:42 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 22:3022:30Frame at 22:4122:41

Play from 22:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 32 · shots 184–185. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
farm (farm, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • man in dark suit, top hat, bow tie, light trousers visible, audible
  • man in dark coat, bowler hat, bow tie visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand outdoors talking near chickens and a fence. [frame:1]
  • A horse-drawn buggy approaches a house. [frame:2]
Also said
“Hey, look out for that fox.” 22:37
Seen
chickens [frame:1], wooden fence [frame:1], horse-drawn buggy [frame:2], house with shingled roof [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted with a hint of absurdity; themes: humor, childhood curiosity, rural life; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white, period costumes, outdoor set with natural lighting

Two men in period attire stand outdoors near a fence and chickens; one speaks about ghosts and school while the other warns of a fox. A horse-drawn buggy approaches a house in the background.

“Just because you're a ghost, you don't have to haunt me. Get back in the buggy. No, I'll buggy sick.” 22:28 · “Besides, I want to see what the inside of a school looks like.” 22:33 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 22:30 (passage 22:20–22:42); US record: No renewal found

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