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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 16 · permalink

Forest

3:24–3:31 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 3:253:25Frame at 3:283:28Frame at 3:313:31

Play from 3:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 11 · shots 43–45. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in a hat and suit, as depicted in a newspaper photo visible
  • woman wearing a bonnet and long dress, standing outdoors visible
Seen happening
  • A newspaper with a photo of a man in a hat is shown. [frame:1]
  • A woman in a bonnet stands in a wooded area. [frame:2]
  • The newspaper is shown again with knives pointing at the man's photo. [frame:3]
Seen
newspaper, knives, bonnet
On screen
AS fer kd Coupe
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: media, threat, rural setting; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, dramatic framing with knives pointing at a newspaper photo

A newspaper headline featuring a man in a hat is shown, followed by a woman in a bonnet standing in a wooded area, then the newspaper again. A voice says Snuffy is not giving revenues comfort.

“Snuffy sure ain't giving them revenues no comfort.” 3:25 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 3:25 (passage 3:24–3:31); US record: No renewal found

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