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Little Men · Beat 77 · permalink

Private office

24:22–24:50 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 24:2424:24Frame at 24:3324:33Frame at 24:4624:46Frame at 24:4924:49

Play from 24:22 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 202–206. 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
  • Andy Portman (named at t:24:44): man in dark suit and bow tie, mid-adult, medium build visible, audible
  • man in dark coat, side profile, mid-adult visible
  • girl in patterned dress with white collar, seated, young visible
Seen happening
  • The man gestures while speaking about education beyond book learning. [frame:1]
  • Two men and a girl stand in a room with a staircase; one man faces the girl. [frame:2]
  • The man raises his hand while speaking about teaching music and arts. [frame:3]
  • A hand opens a drawer in a piece of furniture. [frame:4]
Also said
“We want to fit our pupils for a charming social life as well.” 24:33 · “the appreciation of all the finer things, as in Switzerland.” 24:40
Seen
bow tie, wall clock, staircase, drawer
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and didactic; themes: education, social class, family duty; style notes: medium close-ups and two-shots; high-contrast black-and-white lighting; static camera

A man in a suit speaks about educating girls for social life, mentioning companions and Swiss-style education. A hand opens a drawer while two men and a girl stand in a room with a staircase.

“till I take care of my sister's daughter, Daisy.” 24:22 · “So we know how much more there is to education than...” 24:29 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 24:24 (passage 24:22–24:50); US record: No renewal found

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