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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 189 · permalink

Wooden building entrance

36:07–36:13 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 36:1036:10

Play from 36:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 102 · shots 449–449. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
wooden building entrance (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark hat and coat, carrying briefcase visible
  • man in uniform with cap, facing p1 visible
  • man in uniform with cap, standing to the right visible
Seen
briefcase, wooden building with glass door, hanging lantern
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; style notes: medium shot, black-and-white, studio lighting, static framing

Three men in period uniforms stand near a wooden building entrance; one holds a briefcase. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 36:10 (passage 36:07–36:13); US record: No renewal found

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