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43:13–43:34 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 43:1543:15Frame at 43:2043:20Frame at 43:2343:23Frame at 43:3343:33

Play from 43:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 116 · shots 526–531. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: frame:4
People
  • bald, wearing military-style uniform with suspenders, seated visible
  • older, wearing military-style uniform with hat and sergeant stripes, standing visible
Seen happening
  • A man in uniform sits and speaks. [frame:1]
  • Another man in uniform stands in the room. [frame:3]
  • The standing man faces the seated man in a room with multiple beds. [frame:4]
Also said
“Oh, dear.” 43:24 · “Trying to make friends with Mr. Carson?” 43:31
Seen
military uniform [frame:1], beds [frame:4], hat [frame:3], sergeant stripes [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but conversational; themes: military life, interpersonal tension; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, studio lighting, static camera

A man in uniform sits in a room with beds while another man in uniform stands nearby. Dialogue suggests an attempt to make friends with someone named Mr. Carson.

“You know, twenty-one dollars in khaki breeches are all right, but I'm a hankering to look into your big brown eyeballs again, partner.” 43:13 · “Yes, sir.” 43:23 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 43:15 (passage 43:13–43:34); US record: No renewal found

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