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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 248 · permalink

Battlefield

51:18–51:19 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 51:1951:19

Play from 51:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 136 · shots 619–619. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(battlefield, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • soldier wearing helmet and uniform, raising right arm visible
  • soldier wearing helmet, standing near gun barrel visible
  • soldier wearing helmet, crouching near gun carriage visible
  • soldier wearing helmet, partially visible behind gun visible
Seen happening
  • A soldier raises his arm while others stand near a field gun. [frame:1]
Seen
field gun [frame:1], helmets [frame:1], dust cloud [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: military, war, artillery; style notes: grainy black-and-white, medium shot, high contrast lighting, action-focused framing

A group of soldiers in helmets are gathered around a field gun in a dusty, open area. One soldier raises his arm while others stand or crouch near the artillery piece.

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 51:19 (passage 51:18–51:19); US record: No renewal found

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