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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 184 · permalink

Private office

33:51–34:21 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 33:5633:56Frame at 34:0434:04Frame at 34:1734:17Frame at 34:2034:20

Play from 33:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 101 · shots 426–430. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, military uniform with cap, thin build visible, audible
  • man in military uniform with wide-brimmed hat, holding a wooden box, heavier build visible, audible
  • man in military uniform, seated, holding a small object visible
Seen happening
  • A third man is visible seated in a chair, holding an object. [frame:4]
Also said
“Very interesting. Let's go down and inspect your kitchen.” 34:11 · “Oh, General. General. Whoa.” 34:18
Seen
wooden box [frame:1], military uniforms [frame:1], wide-brimmed hat [frame:1], chair [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and slightly comedic; themes: military hierarchy, morale and logistics, bureaucratic inspection; style notes: medium shots, static camera, studio lighting, black-and-white film

Two men in military uniforms converse indoors; one carries a wooden box and mentions inspecting the kitchen. A third man is briefly visible seated in a chair.

“I wish to compliment you on the high morale of your company. Oh.” 33:55 · “But an army travels on its stomach.” 34:04 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 33:56 (passage 33:51–34:21); US record: No renewal found

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