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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 100 · permalink

Road

16:38–16:53 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 16:4016:40Frame at 16:4216:42Frame at 16:4916:49Frame at 16:5316:53

Play from 16:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 64 · shots 235–239. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing wide-brimmed hat, suspenders, light shirt; middle-aged, stocky build visible, audible
  • man in car wearing dark hat and coat; visible from chest up visible, audible
  • man wearing hat and striped shirt, holding rifle; partially obscured by wooden structure visible
Seen happening
  • Man p1 stands beside car talking to driver p2. [frame:1]
  • Man p3 aims rifle from behind wooden structure. [frame:2]
  • Man p1 continues talking to driver p2 in car. [frame:3]
  • Man p1 leans toward car window, reaching toward driver p2. [frame:4]
Also said
“My bad gibbers!” 16:49 · “I'm a join in the army with you.” 16:50
Seen
vintage car, rifle, wooden structure, hat, suspenders
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and comedic; themes: military enlistment, rural setting, comic confrontation; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s comedies

A man in a hat and suspenders stands beside a vintage car, speaking with a driver; another man with a rifle appears behind a wooden structure. One man says he will join the army with the other.

“Who would you saw be a hard meow?” 16:39 · “No? Still mad at me.” 16:45 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 Private Snuffy Smith (1942) at 16:40 (passage 16:38–16:53); US record: No renewal found

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