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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 126 · permalink

Forest

20:37–20:47 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 20:3920:39Frame at 20:4120:41Frame at 20:4320:43Frame at 20:4620:46

Play from 20:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 79 · shots 288–291. 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
  • person wearing a headscarf and loose, light-colored garment; appears middle-aged; medium build visible
Seen happening
  • Person p1 raises hands in alarm as steam erupts from a cauldron. [frame:1]
  • Person p1 stares with wide eyes and open mouth, hands raised. [frame:2]
  • Steam billows from the cauldron, obscuring person p1's lower body. [frame:3]
  • Person p1 maintains alarmed expression with hands up, steam still visible. [frame:4]
Seen
cauldron [frame:1], steam or smoke [frame:3], headscarf [frame:1], loose garment [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: startled, comedic alarm; themes: sudden surprise, comedy of reaction; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white, theatrical facial expressions

A person in a headscarf and loose garment reacts with alarm to a sudden burst of steam or smoke from a cauldron in a wooded area. The reaction is shown across four frames, with the person raising hands and showing wide-eyed surprise.

“No!” 20:38 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 20:39 (passage 20:37–20:47); US record: No renewal found

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