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Little Men · Beat 75 · permalink

Private office

23:31–23:54 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 23:3623:36Frame at 23:4523:45Frame at 23:5023:50Frame at 23:5223:52

Play from 23:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 33 · shots 192–195. 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, middle-aged, dark hair, formal suit with bow tie, holding a cane visible, audible
  • woman, dark hair, patterned dress with white collar visible, audible
Also said
“Where I was educated. Switzerland.” 23:42 · “There's no finer place to send a boy. Except Plumbeard. Of course. Maybe you attended the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule at Zürich.” 23:46
Seen
bookshelf [frame:1], cane [frame:1], bow tie [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and conversational; themes: education, class, parental aspiration; style notes: medium close-ups, studio lighting, static framing, period costume

A man in formal attire speaks to a woman in a patterned dress inside a room with bookshelves; he mentions sending his son to Switzerland for cultural training and references Plumbeard and the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule at Zürich. The woman listens and responds briefly.

“You might call me that. Yes.” 23:31 · “You see, as I was saying, what my son needs now is cultural training. Naturally, my first thought was to place him in a school in Switzerland.” 23:34 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 23:36 (passage 23:31–23:54); US record: No renewal found

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