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42:47–43:06 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 5 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 42:4742:47Frame at 42:5042:50Frame at 42:5442:54Frame at 43:0543:05

Play from 42:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 113 · shots 516–522. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • bald, older, wearing a heavy coat and tie, sitting visible
  • Mr. Carson (named at t:43:02): wearing a uniform, standing, entering the room visible
Seen happening
  • A man sits in a room with bunk beds. [frame:1]
  • Another man enters the room and stands behind the seated man. [frame:4]
  • The screen is blank. [frame:2]
  • The seated man looks down at his hands. [frame:3]
  • The seated man looks up as the standing man enters. [frame:4]
Also said
“And the General ain't our friend no more. That rigging barrel Cooper.” 42:54 · “All right, Mr. Carson.” 43:02
Seen
bunk beds, hat on a table, uniform, heavy coat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and weary; themes: military life, dissatisfaction, authority; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black and white, studio lighting, minimal camera movement

A man sits in a room with bunk beds while another man enters. The transcript includes complaints about lack of appreciation and mentions a General and Mr. Carson.

“We ain't appreciated round here.” 42:48 · “I done been working like killing snakes.” 42:51 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 42:47 (passage 42:47–43:06); US record: No renewal found

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