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Little Men · Beat 73 · permalink

Private office

23:02–23:17 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 23:0923:09

Play from 23:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 33 · shots 189–189. 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
  • woman, dark hair in updo, wearing checkered dress and apron visible
  • Major Berthold (named at t:23:06): man, wearing top hat and long coat visible, audible
  • man, wearing wide-brimmed hat and dark coat visible
Seen happening
  • Three people stand in a doorway, one woman and two men. [frame:1]
Also said
“You all? There's just the two of us here.” 23:09
Seen
doorway [frame:1], top hat [frame:1], wide-brimmed hat [frame:1], checkered dress [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and slightly confused; themes: social formality, miscommunication; style notes: medium shot, black-and-white, studio lighting, period costumes

A woman in a checkered dress and two men in hats stand in a doorway. One man is addressed as 'Major Berthold' and is invited inside, though he notes there are only two of them.

“Major Berthold to see Professor Dare.” 23:06 · “Won't you all come in?” 23:08 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 23:09 (passage 23:02–23:17); US record: No renewal found

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