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Little Men · Beat 89 · permalink

Living room

28:08–28:51 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 28:2428:24Frame at 28:4028:40Frame at 28:4628:46

Play from 28:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 39 · shots 235–237. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:3
People
  • man in dark formal suit and bow tie, mid-adult, medium build visible
  • man in dark suit, mid-adult, medium build, grimacing expression visible
  • woman in checkered apron over dress, mid-adult, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • A man holds a large dark object aloft in a living room. [frame:1]
  • A man grimaces directly at the camera. [frame:2]
  • A woman lifts a basket near a bookshelf. [frame:3]
Also said
“Oh, darling, no.” 28:22 · “Sister, you ought to be there, yes, my lord.” 28:25
Seen
large dark object, armchair, bookshelf, basket, curtains
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dramatic and disjointed; themes: domestic tension, theatrical performance, fragmented communication; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, theatrical expressions

A man in formal attire holds a large object aloft while another man grimaces; a woman in an apron lifts a basket near a bookshelf. The transcript includes fragmented phrases and vocalizations, with no clear narrative connection to the visuals.

“Roll, Jordan, roll, roll, Jordan, roll.” 28:12 · “I want a cold head when it dies.” 28:18 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 28:24 (passage 28:08–28:51); US record: No renewal found

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