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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 13 · permalink

Forest

2:38–2:46 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 2:422:42

Play from 2:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 10 · shots 35–35. 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 headscarf and light-colored dress, seated on a log visible
  • man, wearing a hat and long-sleeved shirt, seated on ground visible
Seen
log [frame:1], hat [frame:1], headscarf [frame:1], trees and foliage [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual, conversational; themes: rural life, everyday needs; style notes: black and white, natural outdoor lighting, medium shot framing two seated figures

Two people are seated outdoors in a wooded area; one asks for tobacco wrappings. The scene is shot in black and white with natural lighting.

“Anybody got some tobacco wrappings?” 2:40 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 2:42 (passage 2:38–2:46); US record: No renewal found

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