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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 17 · permalink

Forest

3:31–3:55 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 3:353:35Frame at 3:433:43Frame at 3:483:48Frame at 3:523:52

Play from 3:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 12 · shots 46–49. 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, frame:2, frame:4
People
  • man, wearing overalls, a patterned shirt, and a hat, smiling in frame 1, standing in frame 2 visible
  • woman, wearing a dress and a headscarf, standing in frame 2 visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands near a tree with a sign attached to it. [frame:1]
  • The man and a woman stand together in a wooded area. [frame:2]
  • The man and woman remain standing in the same position. [frame:3]
  • The scene cuts to a rocky, wooded landscape with no people visible. [frame:4]
Also said
“They's just shadow hunting when they's looking for Snuffy.” 3:44 · “Because he'd be up there on the point of eagle eye in the mouth.” 3:47
Seen
sign on tree, overalls, hat, dress, headscarf
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted, rustic; themes: rural life, humor, pursuit; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, static camera

A man in overalls and a hat stands near a tree with a sign, then is shown with a woman in a wooded area; the final frame shows a rocky, wooded landscape. The transcript mentions Snuffy, revenues, and shadow hunting.

“Recollect the time he put a harness nest in Cooper's car, there was a sting in him and he was as speckled as a guinea pig. Them revenues are just a pining to get their hands on Snuffy.” 3:31 · “You ain't needn't be afraid.” 3:42 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 3:35 (passage 3:31–3:55); US record: No renewal found

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