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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 218 · permalink

Barracks

43:34–43:52 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 43:3543:35Frame at 43:4143:41Frame at 43:4843:48Frame at 43:5143:51

Play from 43:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 116 · shots 532–535. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
barracks (other, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • bald man in military-style uniform with hat and sergeant stripes visible, audible
  • older man with bald head, wearing jacket, seated visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in uniform stands over a seated man in a room with beds. [frame:2]
  • The standing man leans forward toward the seated man. [frame:3]
Also said
“Mr. Carson.” 43:43 · “Mr. Carson, jump up on it.” 43:46
Seen
military uniform [frame:1], beds [frame:2], luggage [frame:2], hat [frame:1], sergeant stripes [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and comedic; themes: military life, miscommunication, authority and obedience; style notes: medium shots, static camera, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, studio set with visible props

A man in a uniform speaks to another man seated in a room with beds and luggage; the transcript includes calls to 'Mr. Carson' and an instruction for him to jump. No named characters are identified in the dialogue or visuals.

“Who's Mr. Carson?” 43:35 · “Yeah, my dog.” 43:37 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 43:35 (passage 43:34–43:52); US record: No renewal found

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