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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 196 · permalink

Private office

38:17–38:34 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 38:2138:21Frame at 38:3038:30

Play from 38:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 105 · shots 471–472. 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 beret and dark shirt, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • man leans over a desk, handling an object [frame:1]
  • man turns his back to the camera and faces a cabinet [frame:2]
Seen
beret [frame:1], desk [frame:1], telephone [frame:1], cabinet [frame:1], papers on cabinet [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: focused, quiet; themes: solitude, work; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast lighting, static camera

A man in a beret and dark shirt is seen in a dim interior, first leaning over a desk and then turning away from it. The room contains a cabinet with papers and a telephone on the desk.

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 38:21 (passage 38:17–38:34); US record: No renewal found

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