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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 109 · permalink

Wooden building exterior

19:00–19:02 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 19:0119:01

Play from 19:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 69 · shots 262–262. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
wooden building exterior (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark uniform with cap, walking visible
  • man in light shirt and hat, running visible
  • man in dark shirt, visible in background visible
Seen happening
  • A man in uniform walks past a wooden building. [frame:1]
  • A man in a hat runs toward the man in uniform. [frame:1]
Seen
{'item': 'wooden building with awning', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'dirt ground', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'distant white structure', 'frame': 1}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, authority vs. civilian; style notes: medium shot, black and white, high contrast lighting, static camera

A man in uniform walks past a wooden building while another man in a hat runs toward him. The scene is outdoors on a dirt ground with a building and distant structures visible.

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 19:01 (passage 19:00–19:02); US record: No renewal found

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