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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 239 · permalink

Forest

49:15–49:37 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; 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 49:1649:16Frame at 49:2149:21Frame at 49:2749:27Frame at 49:3349:33

Play from 49:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 129 · shots 591–594. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • woman wearing a headscarf and heavy coat, middle-aged, medium build visible
  • Mr. Carson (named at t:49:18): man wearing a wide-brimmed hat and uniform-style coat, middle-aged, stocky build visible
Seen happening
  • Footprints are visible in dirt. [frame:1]
  • A woman and a man stand beside a barrel in a wooded area; the man holds the barrel. [frame:2]
  • A dog wearing a quilted vest walks away from the camera. [frame:3]
  • The woman and man smile at each other while standing near the barrel. [frame:4]
Also said
“It appears like Mr. Carson done take on a little weight.” 49:33
Seen
barrel, dog wearing quilted vest, wide-brimmed hat, headscarf
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted with ironic undertones; themes: rural life, humor through observation, character interaction; style notes: medium shots, naturalistic lighting, period costumes, black-and-white film stock

A woman and a man in period clothing stand near a barrel in a wooded area; the man holds the barrel while the woman gestures. A dog wearing a quilted vest is shown from behind, walking away.

“Mr. Carson, it appears to me like you've been ghosting around long enough.” 49:18 · “*sad music*” 49:24 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 49:16 (passage 49:15–49:37); US record: No renewal found

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