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Little Men · Beat 98 · permalink

Garden

30:36–31:01 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 30:3830:38Frame at 30:4630:46Frame at 30:4730:47Frame at 30:5930:59

Play from 30:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 41 · shots 248–253. 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, dark hair in a bun, wearing a patterned dress with a white collar visible
  • man, light hair, wearing a dark suit and bow tie visible
  • Professor Bayer (named at t:30:36): man, wearing a dark overcoat and top hat, holding a cane visible
  • Mr. Burdy (named at t:30:57): man, wearing a dark suit and bowler hat, holding a pipe visible
  • Mr. Ferdinand (named at t:30:36): man, wearing a dark suit and top hat, shaking hands visible
  • man, wearing a dark coat and hat, partially visible on left visible
Seen happening
  • People are gathered outdoors saying goodbye. [frame:1]
  • A man shakes hands with another man. [frame:4]
  • A woman and a man stand side by side, looking off-camera. [frame:2]
Also said
“Loving here, just like in Switzerland.” 30:47 · “I can't hear.” 30:59
Seen
top hat, bowler hat, cane, pipe, stone wall, garden plants
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: polite farewell with undertones of emotional strain; themes: farewell, rural life, social class (indicated by attire); style notes: medium shots and close-ups in black-and-white; natural outdoor lighting; static camera framing

A group of adults in period clothing stands outdoors in a garden, exchanging farewells. One man shakes hands with another while others look on; a woman and a man are shown in close-up, and a line states someone cannot hear.

“Goodbye, Professor Bayer. Goodbye, Mr. Ferdinand.” 30:36 · “You will see what country life will do for Danny. You will not recognize your own son. Fresh vegetables.” 30:40 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 30:38 (passage 30:36–31:01); US record: No renewal found

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