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Little Men · Beat 79 · permalink

Forest

25:11–25:13 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 25:1225:12

Play from 25:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 34 · shots 213–213. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman with curly hair, wearing a light-colored dress, sitting on a tree branch visible
Seen
tree branch [frame:1], dress [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: calm; themes: nature, solitude; style notes: medium shot, natural lighting, black and white film

A woman in a light dress sits on a large tree branch outdoors. No dialogue or other actions are visible in this single frame.

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 25:12 (passage 25:11–25:13); US record: No renewal found

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