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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 117 · permalink

Forest

19:34–19:47 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 19:3719:37Frame at 19:4219:42Frame at 19:4619:46

Play from 19:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 77 · shots 271–273. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • woman, older, wearing headscarf and long dress, standing near wagon visible
  • man, wearing hat and coat, holding white animal visible
  • child, not visible audible
Seen happening
  • Woman stands near wagon and cauldron in forest [frame:1]
  • Woman visible through wooden structure in forest [frame:2]
  • Man holds white animal near tree [frame:3]
Seen
wagon wheel, cauldron, wooden structure, tree, white animal (possibly goat or sheep)
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: rustic and domestic; themes: rural life, domestic labor, family interaction; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, period costumes

A woman in period clothing stands near a wagon and cauldron in a wooded area, while a man in a hat holds a white animal near a tree. The transcript includes a child calling "Pa!" and a line about opening a can for soap making.

“Pa!” 19:39 · “Be opening this can for my soap making.” 19:41 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 19:37 (passage 19:34–19:47); US record: No renewal found

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