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Little Men · Beat 86 · permalink

Private office

27:05–27:32 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 27:1027:10Frame at 27:2127:21Frame at 27:2427:24Frame at 27:3127:31

Play from 27:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 227–232. 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
  • man in dark suit and bow tie, medium build, dark hair, clean-shaven visible, audible
  • man in dark suit and bow tie, heavier build, dark hair, clean-shaven visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand facing each other in a room with bookshelves. [frame:1]
  • One man holds a paper and speaks with an expressive face. [frame:2]
  • The other man listens with a serious expression. [frame:3]
  • The first man smiles while holding the paper. [frame:4]
Also said
“To be exact, it is $2,500.” 27:20 · “I would like to double it in the next few months.” 27:24
Seen
bookshelf, lamp, paper, curtains, bow tie
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious and transactional; themes: financial ambition, personal request, male interaction in a professional setting; style notes: medium close-ups, static camera, studio lighting with soft shadows, formal attire

Two men in suits discuss an investment of $2,500 in a room with bookshelves and curtains. One man asks the other for advice on doubling the money in a few months.

“Meet her, Pirtle.” 27:05 · “My wife just brought this money from the bank today, and I would like to put it to work.” 27:13 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 27:10 (passage 27:05–27:32); US record: No renewal found

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