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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 230 · permalink

Military office

46:03–46:40 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: visible event not seen. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 46:0646:06Frame at 46:1246:12Frame at 46:1946:19Frame at 46:3646:36

Play from 46:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 124 · shots 556–562. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
military_office (other, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man in military uniform and cap, holding phone receiver to ear visible
  • man in military uniform with hat, standing, facing p3 visible
  • man in military uniform with cap, seated, then standing, facing p2 visible
Seen happening
  • A man in uniform talks on a telephone. [frame:1]
  • A military vehicle with a mounted weapon is shown outdoors. [frame:2]
  • Two officers stand facing each other in an office; one is seated. [frame:3]
  • Two officers stand facing each other in an office; both are standing. [frame:4]
Also said
“and the War Department puts him in the Great Smokies.” 46:24 · “You send them home, sir.” 46:39
Seen
telephone, military vehicle with mounted weapon, military uniforms and caps, map on wall, desk
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and bureaucratic; themes: military hierarchy, logistical failure, regional geography as plot device; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white, military uniforms and equipment dominate frame

A military officer is on the phone while another officer stands nearby; a military vehicle with a mounted weapon is shown outdoors; two officers converse in an office. The transcript includes dialogue about locating a rangefinder, sending people home, and references to the Ozarks and Great Smokies.

“Pick him up in the car.” 46:05 · “Do you mean to tell me that you can't locate that range finder?” 46:16 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 46:06 (passage 46:03–46:40); US record: No renewal found

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