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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 231 · permalink

Private office

46:40–47:07 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; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 46:4146:41Frame at 46:4946:49Frame at 46:5346:53Frame at 47:0547:05

Play from 46:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 124 · shots 563–568. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Mr. Last (named at t:46:40): man in dark military-style uniform with peaked cap, insignia on collar and sleeve, belt with buckle visible, audible
  • man in lighter uniform with wide-brimmed hat, sergeant stripes on sleeve, standing at attention visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men in uniform stand facing each other in an office. [frame:1]
  • The man in the hat turns to face the other man. [frame:2]
  • The man in the hat speaks with a surprised expression. [frame:3]
  • The man in the peaked cap turns toward a door, casting a shadow. [frame:4]
Also said
“I've chased yard bird Smith all through those mountains.” 46:48 · “That'll be all, sir.” 47:00
Seen
military uniform, peaked cap, wide-brimmed hat, desk, chair, map on wall, door
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, tense; themes: military authority, pursuit and failure, bureaucratic interaction; style notes: medium shots, static camera, high-contrast lighting, studio set with minimal props

Two men in military-style uniforms converse in an office; one is addressed as 'Mr. Last' and mentions chasing 'Yardbird Smith' without catching him. The interaction concludes with an order to retrieve something, followed by a farewell.

“Mr. Last draw.” 46:40 · “You don't need yard bird Smith.” 46:42 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 46:41 (passage 46:40–47:07); US record: No renewal found

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