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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 236 · permalink

Forest

48:17–48:36 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; 4 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 48:2148:21Frame at 48:2948:29Frame at 48:3548:35

Play from 48:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 128 · shots 580–582. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, light-colored dress, mid-20s to 30s, average build visible
  • man, dark suit, lying on ground, mid-20s to 30s visible
  • woman, light-colored suit, standing, mid-20s to 30s visible
  • Mr. Carson (named at t:48:22): unseen, voice heard audible
Seen happening
  • A woman in a white dress bends over a man lying on the ground. [frame:1]
  • The woman continues to lean over the man on the ground. [frame:2]
  • A woman in a suit stands upright while a man runs away in the background. [frame:3]
Also said
“Help me, Mr. Carson!” 48:22 · “Something bit me!” 48:31
Seen
white dress [frame:1], dark suit [frame:1], light-colored suit [frame:3], trees [frame:1], dirt ground [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict, intervention, distress; style notes: medium shots, black-and-white, natural outdoor lighting, static camera

A woman in a white dress is seen bending over a man on the ground while another woman in a suit stands nearby; a man is heard shouting for help and reacting to being bitten. The scene takes place outdoors in a wooded area with trees and dirt ground visible.

“Don't!” 48:17 · “Don't, Missy!” 48:20 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 48:21 (passage 48:17–48:36); US record: No renewal found

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