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19:04–19:19 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; 5 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 19:0719:07Frame at 19:1419:14

Play from 19:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 71 · shots 264–265. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • General (named at t:19:09): older man in military uniform with medals, balding, authoritative build visible, audible
  • man in military uniform, cap, holding another man down visible
  • man in military uniform, being held down, partially obscured visible
  • man in military uniform, standing, facing General visible
  • man in military uniform, standing to right, partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • A man in uniform is holding another man down against a wooden post. [frame:1]
  • A General in uniform speaks to a group of soldiers outside a building. [frame:2]
Also said
“Where's that little civilian?” 19:10 · “On job, come back with Alan.” 19:17
Seen
wooden building, military uniforms, military caps, medals on uniform
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and authoritative; themes: military authority, pursuit, obedience; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, high-contrast lighting, staged group composition

A group of uniformed men, including an officer, are outside a wooden building; one man is being held down while others stand around. An officer gives orders to find a civilian who ran down the road.

“Time's awake, sir.” 19:07 · “By your hunt, General.” 19:09 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 19:07 (passage 19:04–19:19); US record: No renewal found

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