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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 20 · permalink

Forest

4:20–4:36 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 4:234:23Frame at 4:304:30

Play from 4:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 56–57. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • man wearing a wide-brimmed hat, suspenders, and a long-sleeved shirt, with a mustache visible
  • figure wearing a hooded garment, partially obscured, crouching visible
  • figure in light-colored clothing, partially visible, near p2 visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a hat and suspenders stands outdoors. [frame:1]
  • Two figures are crouched among trees and rocks. [frame:2]
Also said
“recall” 4:28
Seen
hat [frame:1], suspenders [frame:1], hooded garment [frame:2], trees [frame:1, frame:2], rocks [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspenseful or mysterious; themes: outdoor concealment, unspoken tension; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up and medium shots, natural outdoor lighting with dappled shadows

A man in a hat and suspenders is shown outdoors, followed by a shot of two figures in a wooded area. No names or specific events are mentioned in the transcript during this beat.

“*whistling*” 4:23 · “*whistling*” 4:27 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 4:23 (passage 4:20–4:36); US record: No renewal found

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