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Little Men · Beat 83 · permalink

Field

25:45–26:15 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 25:4925:49Frame at 25:5425:54Frame at 26:0526:05

Play from 25:45 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 36 · shots 220–222. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • boy in dark jacket and hat, standing left visible
  • boy crouching on ground, wearing light shirt and dark pants visible
  • Mr. Dan Birdle (named at t:26:13): woman in dark patterned dress with white collar, standing center visible, audible
  • boy in light shirt and suspenders, standing right visible
  • boy with curly hair, wearing light shirt, arms crossed visible
  • boy in dark jacket, standing behind woman visible
  • girl in light dress, standing left visible
  • boy in dark shirt and bow tie, standing behind woman visible
Also said
“I want you all to be friends.” 26:11 · “Mr. Dan Birdle.” 26:13
Seen
hat, suspender pants, patterned dress with white collar, bow tie
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but resolving; themes: conflict resolution, childhood rivalry, adult mediation; style notes: medium group shots, natural outdoor lighting, period costumes

A group of children and adults are gathered outdoors after a scuffle; a woman addresses the group, urging them to be friends. A boy named Dan is mentioned as having a new pupil, and another boy boasts he can handle local boys.

“I started it and they got into it. I don't care how it happened.” 25:59 · “But Dan has a new pupil here, and for you boys to... Oh, don't worry about me. I can lick a county full of hayseeds like these. Sure, if they were all girls, I...” 26:02 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 25:49 (passage 25:45–26:15); US record: No renewal found

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