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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 104 · permalink

Army camp

17:01–17:48 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; 4 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 17:0417:04Frame at 17:2817:28Frame at 17:3517:35Frame at 17:4617:46

Play from 17:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 66 · shots 243–248. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
army camp (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1, t:17:22
People
  • soldier in uniform and helmet, carrying a rifle visible
  • civilian man wearing a wide-brimmed hat and long coat, mustache visible, audible
  • guard in uniform and cap, holding a rifle visible
  • group of men in civilian clothes, some with hats, standing in line visible
Seen happening
  • A soldier dismisses a group of men. [frame:1]
  • A civilian argues with a guard at the camp entrance. [frame:2]
  • The civilian gestures angrily while speaking to the guard. [frame:3]
  • The civilian turns and walks away from the guard. [frame:4]
Also said
“You bodacious idiot.” 17:15 · “Now look I've been telling you for a week I can't let you in this army camp.” 17:22
Seen
rifle, wide-brimmed hat, military uniform, trash can
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: confrontational and comedic; themes: authority vs. civilian, bureaucratic obstruction, comic frustration; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static camera, outdoor daylight setting

A soldier dismisses a group of men from an army camp while a civilian in a hat argues with a guard and attempts to enter. The civilian is denied access and threatens the guard before walking away.

“Company dismissed.” 17:01 · “Oh, you skunk.” 17:07 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 17:04 (passage 17:01–17:48); US record: No renewal found

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