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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 208 · permalink

Sidewalk

41:46–41:56 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 41:4941:49Frame at 41:5441:54

Play from 41:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 110 · shots 505–506. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in military uniform, wearing a cap, medium build, appears to be in his 30s visible, audible
  • guard in military uniform, back to camera, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, carrying a rifle visible
  • guard in military uniform, back to camera, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, carrying a rifle visible
Seen happening
  • The soldier is standing between two guards who are blocking his path. [frame:1]
  • The soldier closes his eyes and appears to sigh or react to the news. [frame:2]
Also said
“Going uptown. That's what you think. All leaves are cancelled.” 41:50
Seen
military uniform [frame:1], rifle [frame:1], wide-brimmed hat [frame:1], cap [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: military discipline, authority vs. individual desire; style notes: medium shot framing, black and white, studio lighting with shadows suggesting outdoor setting

A soldier in uniform is confronted by two guards with rifles as he attempts to leave; one guard asks where he thinks he is going, and another states that all leaves are cancelled. The scene takes place outdoors near a building with a covered walkway.

“How?” 41:47 · “Where do you think you're going?” 41:48 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 41:49 (passage 41:46–41:56); US record: No renewal found

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