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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 161 · permalink

Private office

27:41–27:59 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; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 27:4627:46Frame at 27:5427:54Frame at 27:5927:59

Play from 27:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 95 · shots 362–364. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • adult male, wearing military uniform with cap, standing or seated, older visible, audible
  • boy, wearing hat and light shirt, standing visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man and boy face each other in a room with maps and wooden chairs. [frame:1]
  • The boy stands while speaking to the man in uniform. [frame:2]
  • The boy gestures while speaking to the man. [frame:3]
Seen
wooden chairs [frame:1], maps on wall [frame:1], military uniform [frame:1], hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal yet playful; themes: military role-play, childhood imagination, authority and youth; style notes: medium shots, static camera, studio lighting, period costume

A man in uniform speaks to a boy in a room with wooden furniture and maps on the wall. The boy responds while standing, and the man remains seated or standing nearby.

“General, you got yourself a soldier.” 27:42 · “I've been making a heap of other sounds too.” 27:47 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 27:46 (passage 27:41–27:59); US record: No renewal found

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