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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 128 · permalink

Forest

21:04–21:22 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names 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 21:0521:05Frame at 21:0721:07Frame at 21:1621:16Frame at 21:2021:20

Play from 21:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 79 · shots 295–299. 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
  • woman, wearing a bonnet and long dress, heavy build visible, audible
  • man, wearing overalls and a wide-brimmed hat visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman stands near a steaming pot outdoors. [frame:1]
  • The interior of a large metal pot is shown, empty or nearly empty. [frame:2]
  • The same pot is shown again, unchanged. [frame:3]
  • The woman and man stand close, facing each other in conversation. [frame:4]
Also said
“Hey, you be sure you're making it like you always be? Uh-huh.” 21:16
Seen
large metal pot, bonnet, overalls, wide-brimmed hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: rustic and conversational; themes: rural life, domestic labor, dialogue-driven interaction; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, period costume

A woman in period clothing stands near a large pot outdoors while speaking to a man in overalls and a hat; the transcript includes dialogue about soup and trouble. No named characters or specific time of day are established.

“Fork, some evil spirits to drink up my soft soup.” 21:06 · “Now easy, you be giving me more trouble than the revenuers.” 21:11 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 21:05 (passage 21:04–21:22); US record: No renewal found

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