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Little Men · Beat 78 · permalink

Living room

24:50–25:11 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 24:5124:51Frame at 24:5824:58Frame at 25:0325:03Frame at 25:1025:10

Play from 24:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 33 · shots 207–212. 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
People
  • man in dark coat, standing, facing right visible
  • woman seated, dark patterned dress, white collar visible
  • Major Birdle (named at t:24:57): man in dark coat and high collar, standing, facing left visible, audible
  • boy in light jacket and bowler hat, sitting under tree then walking away visible
Seen happening
  • Three adults stand and sit in a room with wallpaper and a staircase visible. [frame:1]
  • A boy sits under a tree while another boy is in the tree above him. [frame:3]
  • A boy in a bowler hat walks away from the camera toward a fence and distant figures. [frame:4]
Also said
“I'm sure your boy will like it again.” 24:59 · “Oh, my God.” 25:01
Seen
staircase, wallpaper, tree, fence, bowler hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and slightly tense; themes: parental trust, childhood supervision, social formality; style notes: static medium shots indoors, wide shot outdoors; high-contrast black-and-white lighting

Three adults converse indoors while a boy sits outdoors under a tree; one man is addressed as Major Birdle. The scene ends with a boy walking away from the camera toward a fence and distant figures.

“Of course, of course. I feel that I can entrust my son to your care.” 24:52 · “Thank you, Major Birdle.” 24:57 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 24:51 (passage 24:50–25:11); US record: No renewal found

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