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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 168 · permalink

Barracks

29:36–30:00 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 29:4029:40Frame at 29:4629:46Frame at 29:5629:56Frame at 29:5829:58

Play from 29:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 96 · shots 381–385. 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
People
  • man in uniform, hat, standing, mid-adult, average build visible
  • man in uniform, hat, bending over cot, mid-adult, average build visible
  • man seated in background, partially visible, wearing uniform visible
Seen happening
  • A man whistles while bending over a cot. [frame:4]
Also said
“Oh, did I step on you, Pa?” 29:44 · “Come on, fozzy tail.” 29:46
Seen
cot [frame:1], uniform [frame:1], hat [frame:1], window [frame:1], coat hanging on wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual, slightly comedic; themes: military life, comedy, everyday interactions; style notes: medium shots, static camera, studio lighting, black and white

A man in uniform speaks to another man in uniform inside a room with cots; a third man is seated in the background. One man whistles while bending over a cot.

“Good coming, Mr. Carson.” 29:38 · “Hello!” 29:42 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 29:40 (passage 29:36–30:00); US record: No renewal found

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