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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 121 · permalink

Forest

20:00–20:17 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 20:0320:03Frame at 20:0820:08Frame at 20:1320:13

Play from 20:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 78 · shots 278–280. 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
People
  • hooded garment, standing, tending a pot visible
  • man wearing hat, lying down, holding rifle visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A hooded person tends a large pot outdoors. [frame:1]
  • A man lies on the ground holding a rifle. [frame:2]
  • The hooded person continues tending the pot. [frame:3]
Also said
“Sure I'll be.” 20:07 · “I'll be lining you to keep kindling cut.” 20:09
Seen
large pot, barrels, rifle, hooded garment, hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: rural, casual; themes: outdoor labor, family interaction; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting

A person in a hooded garment tends a large pot outdoors while another man lies on the ground nearby. The transcript includes dialogue about cutting kindling and a response confirming compliance.

“Pa!” 20:02 · “They are bustin' up my paddle for kindlin' wood.” 20:03 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 20:03 (passage 20:00–20:17); US record: No renewal found

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