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Little Men · Beat 99 · permalink

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31:01–31:27 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 31:0631:06Frame at 31:1331:13Frame at 31:2031:20Frame at 31:2531:25

Play from 31:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 41 · shots 254–257. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, tall, wearing a top hat, dark formal coat, and holding a cane visible, audible
  • younger man, boyish, wearing a bowler hat, light suit, and tie, looking downcast visible, audible
Also said
“It's no use, Pop. I don't like it hearing you know it. These people hate me and I hate them.” 31:24
Seen
cane, fence, top hat, bowler hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and reluctant; themes: class tension, youthful resistance, adult expectation; style notes: medium shots, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, period costume detail

Two men in formal 19th-century attire stand outdoors near a fence; one speaks while the other appears distressed. The speaker mentions companions, food, and associating with 'little ladies and gentlemen,' to which the younger man replies that he dislikes the situation and feels hated.

“Companions, excellent food, a perfect pastoral.” 31:02 · “You're going to associate with little ladies and gentlemen.” 31:20 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 31:06 (passage 31:01–31:27); US record: No renewal found

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