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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 204 · permalink

Private office

40:00–40:17 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 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 40:0340:03Frame at 40:0940:09Frame at 40:1540:15

Play from 40:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 110 · shots 487–489. 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
  • older man, military uniform with cap, medals, belt visible, audible
  • military uniform, back to camera, cap, sash visible
  • military uniform, side view, cap, sash visible
  • military uniform, seen through window, cap visible
Also said
“Now, as the maneuvers, I don't know what the strategy board will decide.” 40:10 · “But I'm in favor of holding a manoeuvres in the Ozark Mountains.” 40:14
Seen
military uniform [frame:1], map on wall [frame:2], window [frame:3], vehicle [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, procedural; themes: military planning, command hierarchy; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, static framing, military attire

A man in military uniform speaks in an office while others stand nearby; a vehicle is visible outside a window. The transcript mentions maneuvers and the Ozark Mountains.

“Yes sir. Can't follow me and close the gate. I'm sorry gentlemen. I'm sure they'll locate the” 40:00 · “Rangefinder.” 40:07 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 40:03 (passage 40:00–40:17); US record: No renewal found

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