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Little Men · Beat 85 · permalink

Garden

26:45–27:05 Released 1940; registered 1941

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Frame at 26:5526:55

Play from 26:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 226–226. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
garden (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, mid-adult, wearing a patterned dress and holding papers visible, audible
  • Danny (named at t:26:57): boy, young, wearing a hat and jacket, arms crossed visible, audible
  • boy, young, wearing a cap and light shirt, holding a stick visible
  • boy, young, wearing a dark shirt and tie visible
  • girl, young, partially visible on left visible
Seen happening
  • A woman addresses a group of children outdoors. [frame:1]
Also said
“Children, back to your word, quickly.” 26:52 · “Come on, Danny. Let you and I get acquainted.” 26:57
Seen
papers [frame:1], stick [frame:1], hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: calm, instructional; themes: education, childhood, introduction to community; style notes: medium shot, natural outdoor lighting, group composition centered on adult and child

A woman speaks to a group of children outdoors, including a boy named Danny, while others look on. The scene is set in a garden or yard with a building in the background.

“Dan doesn't know our ways yet.” 26:46 · “He's come to learn.” 26:48 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 26:55 (passage 26:45–27:05); US record: No renewal found

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