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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 246 · permalink

Field

51:15–51:16 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 51:1651:16

Play from 51:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 134 · shots 617–617. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a hat, light-colored uniform, and tall boots visible
Seen happening
  • a cannon fires, producing a large cloud of smoke [frame:1]
Seen
cannon [frame:1], smoke cloud [frame:1], trees [frame:1], grass [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or dramatic; themes: military, action; style notes: black-and-white, wide shot, outdoor natural lighting, smoke effect dominates frame

A man in a hat and uniform stands near a cannon that has just fired, producing a large cloud of smoke. The scene is outdoors in a grassy field with trees in the background.

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 51:16 (passage 51:15–51:16); US record: No renewal found

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