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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 187 · permalink

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35:07–35:28 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 35:0835:08Frame at 35:1235:12Frame at 35:1535:15Frame at 35:2435:24

Play from 35:07 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 102 · shots 436–441. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, mid-adult, thin build, dark shirt, short hair visible
  • man, mid-adult, wearing a hat and jacket, standing visible
  • man, mid-adult, wearing a hat, seated, face partially obscured visible
  • man, mid-adult, wearing a hat and jacket, seated visible
  • man, mid-adult, wearing a hat and jacket, standing in background visible
Seen happening
  • A man sits and manipulates a small object with his hands. [frame:1]
  • A man in a hat stands while another man in a hat sits with his head down. [frame:3]
  • Several men in hats are gathered in a room with a sign reading 'HALL' on the wall. [frame:4]
Seen
small object being handled [frame:1], hat [frame:3], sign reading 'HALL' [frame:4]
On screen
HALL
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, focused on mundane activity; themes: everyday labor, group gathering; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, typical of 1940s studio production

A man in a dark shirt sits indoors, peeling or handling something small with his hands. Later, several men in hats are shown in a room with a sign reading 'HALL' visible in the background.

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 35:08 (passage 35:07–35:28); US record: No renewal found

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