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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 133 · permalink

Forest

21:49–22:06 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 21:5321:53Frame at 22:0122:01

Play from 21:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 82 · shots 304–305. 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
  • older woman, wearing a bonnet and long dress, holding a small object visible
  • older person, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and loose shirt, holding a ladle visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Person p2 holds a ladle and speaks about putting something in water. [frame:1]
  • Person p2 continues to hold the ladle while person p1 looks on. [frame:2]
Seen
ladle, bonnet, wide-brimmed hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual, domestic; themes: rural life, domestic activity; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, natural lighting, period costume

Two people in period rural attire stand outdoors; one holds a ladle and speaks about putting something in water. The setting appears to be a wooded area, and the dialogue suggests a domestic or culinary activity.

“I'm a putting it in the pot.” 21:56 · “I'm a-putting it in the water.” 22:00 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 21:53 (passage 21:49–22:06); US record: No renewal found

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