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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 155 · permalink

Forest

25:21–25:26 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 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 25:2325:23

Play from 25:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 93 · shots 342–342. 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
  • man wearing a hat and jacket, seated on the left side of the vehicle visible
  • man wearing a hat and jacket, seated on the right side of the vehicle visible
Seen
vehicle [frame:1], trees [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: outdoor travel, companionable silence; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, natural lighting with dappled shadows from trees

Two men are seated in the front of a vehicle in a wooded area. The vehicle is stationary and the men appear to be looking forward.

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 25:23 (passage 25:21–25:26); US record: No renewal found

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