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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 172 · permalink

Barracks

30:18–30:34 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 30:1930:19Frame at 30:2330:23Frame at 30:2830:28Frame at 30:3230:32

Play from 30:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 99 · shots 389–392. 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
  • Snuffy (named at t:30:19): man in military uniform, cap, medium build, young adult visible, audible
  • person lying down, legs visible, wearing trousers and shoes visible
Seen happening
  • A man in uniform stands near a person lying on a bed. [frame:1]
  • The man in uniform adjusts his cap while standing. [frame:2]
  • The man in uniform holds his stomach while standing. [frame:3]
  • The man in uniform speaks directly to the camera. [frame:4]
Also said
“Still manicure those potatoes. I've been doing that for a flock of days. But I ain't doing a woman's work no more. You better not let Cooper catch you here.” 30:25
Seen
military uniform [frame:1], bed [frame:1], personal items (clothing, bottles) [frame:1], door [frame:1], window [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual, slightly tense; themes: military life, duty vs. personal preference, authority; style notes: medium shots, static camera, high-contrast lighting, military setting

A man in a military uniform stands and speaks in a room with another person lying down; the dialogue references kitchen duties and a character named Cooper. The setting appears to be a barracks or military quarters with personal items scattered around.

“Hey, Snuffy, I thought you were still on kitchen police. I do be.” 30:19 · “When I'm betting up for a spell or four, I'll be mess-making.” 30:22 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 30:19 (passage 30:18–30:34); US record: No renewal found

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