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28:06–28:08 Released 1940; registered 1941

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Frame at 28:0728:07

Play from 28:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 38 · shots 234–234. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
Seen
scissors, measuring tape, fabric and yarn
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: craft, domestic work; style notes: close-up shot, high contrast black-and-white, focused on still life of tools and materials

A close-up shows scissors and a measuring tape resting on a pile of fabric and yarn. No people or dialogue are visible or audible in this beat.

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 28:07 (passage 28:06–28:08); US record: No renewal found

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