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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 15 · permalink

Forest

3:01–3:24 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes 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 3:063:06Frame at 3:123:12Frame at 3:173:17Frame at 3:223:22

Play from 3:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends. Sequence 10 · shots 39–42. 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 man, wearing a hat, patterned shirt, and overalls visible, audible
  • woman, wearing a headscarf and a dress with a tied front visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man holds a paper and speaks to the woman. [frame:1]
  • The man pins the paper to a tree trunk. [frame:3]
Also said
“Well, I'm going to stick this up here where Snuffy can sit.” 3:10 · “I always did want a hug stick of revenue.” 3:17
Seen
paper [frame:1], tree trunk [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: conflict over property, rural setting, personal declaration; style notes: medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, static camera, period costume

A man and a woman are outdoors near trees; the man holds a paper and later pins it to a tree while speaking. The woman listens and reacts, and the man mentions busting up stills and putting something up for Snuffy.

“You're saying?” 3:02 · “I'm going to bust up all our stills.” 3:06 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 3:06 (passage 3:01–3:24); US record: No renewal found

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