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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 106 · permalink

Military camp

18:30–18:54 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; 3 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 18:3418:34Frame at 18:4018:40Frame at 18:4518:45Frame at 18:5018:50

Play from 18:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 66 · shots 255–259. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
military camp (camp, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in military uniform, cap, belt, standing at attention visible
  • Snuffy Smith (named at t:18:31): man in civilian shirt and pants, holding a child, later seen in uniform visible, audible
  • child in hat and overalls, held by p2 visible
Seen happening
  • A man in uniform stands facing another man holding a child. [frame:1]
  • The man holding the child gestures while speaking to the uniformed man. [frame:2]
  • The uniformed man turns and walks toward the door. [frame:3]
  • The man and child are escorted outside past wooden barracks and a trash can. [frame:4]
Also said
“Come on.” 18:43 · “Stay up!” 18:48
Seen
military uniform, child's hat and overalls, trash can labeled 'G.I.', wooden barracks
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and authoritative; themes: authority, confrontation, military discipline; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, staged interior with props suggesting military setting

A man in uniform confronts another man holding a child in a room, then escorts them outside. The outdoor scene shows a camp-like setting with wooden buildings and a trash can labeled 'G.I.'.

“The ravenower! - Snuffy Smith! - Friend of yours then, Sergeant. - Well, not exactly. - Now, get in here. - I... - So you let him in! Well, get him out of here!” 18:31 · “Yes, sir! Yes, sir.” 18:41 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 18:34 (passage 18:30–18:54); US record: No renewal found

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