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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 190 · permalink

Kitchen

36:13–36:46 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 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 36:1736:17Frame at 36:2536:25Frame at 36:3436:34Frame at 36:4236:42

Play from 36:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 102 · shots 450–453. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
kitchen (kitchen, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in military uniform with cap, stern expression, medium build visible, audible
  • man in wide-brimmed hat and work clothes, cooking at a stove visible, audible
  • man in military uniform with cowboy hat, standing beside p1 visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in uniform stands in a kitchen while another cooks at a stove. [frame:1]
  • The uniformed man speaks to the cook and the man in the cowboy hat. [frame:2]
  • The cook continues stirring while the uniformed man gestures. [frame:3]
  • The cook and the man in the cowboy hat stand together as the uniformed man addresses them. [frame:4]
Also said
“I'm just cooking up another batch of corn drippings. Another batch? Yeah.” 36:20 · “So this is what goes on in your company, huh? Well, I didn't know. It's your business to know. Yes, sir. I put Yardburn in your charge. Yes, sir. Take him out and make a soldier of him. Yes, sir.” 36:28
Seen
large metal pot, hanging pans, wooden table, military uniform, cowboy hat, stove
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: authority, military discipline, illicit activity; style notes: medium shots, static framing, studio lighting, period military costumes

A man in uniform confronts two others in a kitchen where corn drippings are being cooked; he orders one to be made into a soldier and tells them to leave. The scene involves dialogue about liquor and responsibility.

“What is this?” 36:17 · “It's still, General.” 36:19 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 36:17 (passage 36:13–36:46); US record: No renewal found

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