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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 18 · permalink

Forest

3:55–4:16 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; 1 name 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 3:563:56Frame at 3:573:57Frame at 4:084:08Frame at 4:144:14

Play from 3:55 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 12 · shots 50–54. 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
People
  • Mr. Carson (named at t:4:03): man, heavyset, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a long-sleeved shirt visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man lies on the ground with a dog resting on his chest. [frame:1]
  • The dog licks the man's face while he lies on the ground. [frame:2]
  • The man stands, holding the dog in his arms. [frame:3]
  • The man continues to hold the dog while speaking. [frame:4]
Also said
“Yeah, sure, discombuberatin'.” 4:05 · “Come in here, chop-lickin', and it takin' my dream away.” 4:09
Seen
rifle [frame:1], dog [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comic frustration; themes: man and animal, interruption, rural setting; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast black and white, static framing

A man lies on the ground with a dog resting on his chest, then stands and holds the dog while speaking. A rifle is visible near him on the ground. The dialogue references 'Mr. Carson' and a disrupted dream.

“What?” 3:57 · “Mr. Carson.” 4:03 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 3:56 (passage 3:55–4:16); US record: No renewal found

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