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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 188 · permalink

Private office

35:28–36:07 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: visible event not seen. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 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 35:3335:33Frame at 35:4935:49Frame at 35:5635:56Frame at 36:0336:03

Play from 35:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 102 · shots 442–448. 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
  • man wearing a hat and jacket, standing near a door visible
  • man wearing a hat, seated at a table visible
  • man wearing a hat and uniform, standing near a door visible
  • man wearing a hat and jacket, standing in the background visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a hat stands near a door while another sits at a table. [frame:1]
  • A man in a hat stands near a door while another man in a hat is visible in the background. [frame:2]
  • A hand holds a round object. [frame:3]
  • Three men in hats stand near a door, one of them holding a baton. [frame:4]
Seen
hat, jacket, table, door, round object, baton
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted; themes: comedy, military life, romance; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, close-up on object, studio lighting

Three men in hats are seen in a wooden structure; one is seated, another stands near a door, and a third is visible in the background. A close-up shows a hand holding a round object. The transcript mentions a character named Smith who is now a 'yard bird' and is in town because he saw a girl.

“Smith joined up, he's now a yard bird. When evening rolls around, he's sure a tarred bird. You'd think he'd hit the hay and rest, but he's in town because he seed a gal with pretty eyeballs and sandals.” 35:35 · “rosy jaws was he a height the door when brains was passed out no sir he signs the finest x but mom's the word i swear he will be faded don't be disco berated hooray hooray for stubby smith the art” 35:46 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 35:33 (passage 35:28–36:07); US record: No renewal found

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