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Little Men · Beat 76 · permalink

Living room

23:54–24:22 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 23:5623:56Frame at 24:0424:04Frame at 24:1024:10Frame at 24:2024:20

Play from 23:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 33 · shots 196–201. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • woman with dark curly hair, wearing a patterned dress with a light collar visible, audible
  • Mr. Demme (named at t:24:02): man with dark hair, wearing a dark suit and bow tie, standing visible
  • man with light hair, wearing a dark suit and bow tie, seated visible
Seen happening
  • The seated man listens as the standing man speaks. [frame:2]
  • The seated man is shown alone, looking forward. [frame:3]
  • The woman is shown in close-up, speaking. [frame:4]
Also said
“You see, I was always a very frail child.” 24:10 · “Plumfield is more than a school.” 24:14
Seen
framed sign [frame:2], patterned wallpaper [frame:1, frame:3], armchair [frame:3]
On screen
Home Sweet Home
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious and conversational; themes: domestic life, education, parental concern; style notes: static medium shots and close-ups, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal attire suggests period setting

Two adults converse in a room with patterned wallpaper and a framed sign reading 'Home Sweet Home'; one man is seated, another stands beside him, and a woman speaks. The dialogue mentions Plumfield as a home for children and references Geneva's climate.

“Pardon me, Mr. Demme.” 24:02 · “No, my parents considered that, but they liked the climate in Geneva better.” 24:05 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 23:56 (passage 23:54–24:22); US record: No renewal found

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