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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 192 · permalink

Private office

37:04–37:30 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; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 37:0737:07Frame at 37:1237:12Frame at 37:2337:23Frame at 37:2737:27

Play from 37:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 103 · shots 457–461. 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 in soldier's uniform, cap, light shirt, dark trousers, standing near mirror visible, audible
  • man in hat, vest, tie, light shirt, dark trousers, standing with hands in pockets visible
  • woman with curled hair, light dress, standing near clothing rack visible
Seen happening
  • The man in uniform practices a salute while looking in a mirror. [frame:1]
  • The woman speaks, looking concerned. [frame:2]
  • The three people stand together, discussing a plan. [frame:3]
  • The man in uniform turns away from the mirror, preparing to leave. [frame:4]
Also said
“Look it's worth the risk if we get that range finder.” 37:14 · “Your shorts in Cooper's office?” 37:20
Seen
mirror, clothing rack with shirts and hats, soldier's uniform and cap, woman's light dress, man's vest and hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: disguise, espionage, collaboration; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, static camera, period costume

Three people are in a room with clothing racks; one is dressed in a soldier's uniform and speaks about impersonating a soldier to obtain a range finder. Another person mentions having spoken to a hillbilly and Cooper, and refers to shorts being in Cooper's office.

“Think I'll pass for a soldier?” 37:05 · “I don't know. That salute's pretty foamy. I'll get by.” 37:07 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 37:07 (passage 37:04–37:30); US record: No renewal found

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