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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 167 · permalink

Barracks

29:00–29:36 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 29:0429:04Frame at 29:2029:20Frame at 29:2629:26Frame at 29:3529:35

Play from 29:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 96 · shots 375–380. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
barracks (other, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • Sergeant Cooper (named at t:29:21): man in sergeant's uniform, wearing a hat, standing tall, appears middle-aged visible, audible
  • Salo (named at t:29:10): man in soldier's uniform, wearing a hat, slightly stooped, appears middle-aged, has a mustache visible, audible
  • man in uniform, seated in background, partially visible visible
  • man in uniform, seated in background, partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • Sergeant Cooper commands Salo to stand at attention. [frame:1]
  • Salo adjusts his posture while Sergeant Cooper observes. [frame:2]
  • Salo reacts with a grimace after being assigned to the company kitchen. [frame:3]
  • Salo looks upward with an exasperated expression. [frame:4]
Also said
“Balls afar. Taking orders from a revenuer.” 29:24 · “Now go find yourself a cot and report to the company kitchen. Why, Pete?” 29:28
Seen
military uniforms [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], cots [frame:1, frame:2], windows [frame:2], hat [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], belt [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comic tension; themes: military discipline, reluctant obedience, bureaucratic absurdity; style notes: medium shots, static camera, high-contrast lighting, staged blocking typical of 1940s studio comedies

A sergeant instructs a recruit named Salo to stand at attention and assigns him to the company kitchen, while the recruit mutters about taking orders from a revenuer. The scene takes place in a barracks with multiple cots and soldiers present.

“Suck in your stomach! Throw out your chest! Put your heels together, Salo!” 29:10 · “From now on you take orders from Sergeant Cooper, do you understand?” 29:21 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 29:04 (passage 29:00–29:36); US record: No renewal found

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