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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 232 · permalink

Road

47:07–47:27 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 47:0947:09Frame at 47:1247:12Frame at 47:2047:20

Play from 47:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 125 · shots 569–571. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • soldier in uniform, carrying gear, marching visible
  • soldier in uniform, hat, backpack, standing in woods visible
  • woman, civilian clothing, partially visible visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Soldiers march along a road. [frame:1]
  • A soldier stands alone in a wooded area. [frame:3]
Also said
“Howdy, miss.” 47:26
Seen
military truck, backpack, hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, documentary-style; themes: military movement, civilian-soldier interaction; style notes: wide shots, outdoor natural lighting, static camera in some frames

A group of soldiers is seen marching along a road and interacting with a civilian woman. One soldier is shown standing alone in a wooded area.

“I'm.” 47:08 · “- Hiya, soldier.” 47:23 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 47:09 (passage 47:07–47:27); US record: No renewal found

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