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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 138 · permalink

Forest

23:08–23:14 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 23:0923:09Frame at 23:1223:12

Play from 23:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 83 · shots 316–317. 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
  • wearing a headscarf and loose coat, holding two jugs visible
  • partially visible near a cart and barrels, wearing a hat visible
Seen happening
  • A person holds two jugs and looks surprised [frame:1]
  • A person stands near a wooden structure with barrels and a cart [frame:2]
Seen
two jugs, wooden structure, barrels, cart with wheel
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comic; themes: rural setting, comedy; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white, outdoor natural lighting

A person in a headscarf and loose coat holds two jugs outdoors near a wooden structure; another person is visible near a cart and barrels. A line is spoken about revenues arriving.

“Here come the revenues!” 23:09 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 23:09 (passage 23:08–23:14); US record: No renewal found

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