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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 243 · permalink

Forest

49:59–50:18 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 50:0450:04Frame at 50:1250:12Frame at 50:1750:17

Play from 49:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 133 · shots 601–603. 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 wearing a headscarf and long coat, middle-aged, stout build visible, audible
  • man in military uniform with hat and rifle, middle-aged, mustache visible, audible
  • soldiers in uniform, visible in background visible
Also said
“Them's United States soldiers. What are they doing here?” 50:07 · “He's maneuvering. Now don't ask me what that be.” 50:10
Seen
rifle [frame:1], tents [frame:3], table [frame:3], chair [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: confused and tense; themes: military presence, civilian confusion, wartime setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, static framing

A woman and a soldier stand in a wooded area; the soldier holds a rifle. In another shot, soldiers are seen near a table and tents in the same outdoor setting. The transcript indicates confusion about the presence of United States soldiers.

“Here come the ravenous. They're good and blackbirds in the spring. Oh, you're not be knowing, woman.” 50:00 · “Them's not revenues.” 50:05 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 50:04 (passage 49:59–50:18); US record: No renewal found

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