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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 182 · permalink

Camp

32:49–33:14 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 32:5232:52Frame at 32:5832:58Frame at 33:1033:10Frame at 33:1233:12

Play from 32:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 101 · shots 416–420. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
camp (camp, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in uniform, wearing a hat, saluting visible
  • man in uniform, wearing a beret, returning salute visible
  • man in uniform, lying on ground near tent visible
Seen happening
  • A man in uniform stands near a hammock and tent. [frame:1]
  • Two men in uniform salute each other. [frame:2]
  • A man in uniform looks down, possibly distressed. [frame:3]
  • A man in uniform lies on the ground near a tent. [frame:4]
Seen
hammock, tent, uniforms, hat, beret, chair
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and disciplinary; themes: military discipline, apology and consequence, camp life; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, military uniforms and camp setting suggest a wartime or training context

A man in uniform is seen near a hammock and tent, then salutes another man in uniform; a third man is later seen lying on the ground. Dialogue includes an apology and a reference to a meeting at 3 o'clock.

“What's the meaning of this, Sergeant Cooper? Oh, I didn't mean it, sir. I'm sorry. That's no excuse.” 32:59 · “No, sir. We vote to my quarters at 3 o'clock. Yes, sir.” 33:03 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 32:52 (passage 32:49–33:14); US record: No renewal found

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