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Little Men · Beat 71 · permalink

Garden

22:42–22:59 Released 1940; registered 1941

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Frame at 22:4722:47Frame at 22:5522:55

Play from 22:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 32 · shots 186–187. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
garden (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • man in top hat and dark coat, medium build, adult visible
  • man in bowler hat and dark suit, medium build, adult visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men walk side by side outdoors. [frame:1]
  • The men continue walking past a stone house with a white picket fence. [frame:2]
Also said
“Oh, I ain't gonna make you no trouble, mage. You better not.” 22:49 · “I ain't ashamed of you.” 22:55
Seen
top hat [frame:1], bowler hat [frame:1], white picket fence [frame:1, frame:2], stone house [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: social class, confrontation, outdoor setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, period costumes

Two men in formal 19th-century attire walk outdoors near a stone house with a white picket fence. One man speaks to the other, warning him not to cause trouble in front of others.

“Did you see the ears on them?” 22:43 · “It's a fox.” 22:44 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 22:47 (passage 22:42–22:59); US record: No renewal found

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