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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 25 · permalink

Forest

4:46–4:49 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 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 4:484:48

Play from 4:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 18 · shots 62–62. 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
  • man wearing a hat and light-colored shirt, embracing another person visible
  • man being embraced, partially obscured, wearing light-colored clothing visible
  • man standing to the right, holding a rifle, wearing light-colored shirt and dark belt visible
Seen
rifle [frame:1], hat [frame:1], belt [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, outdoor conflict; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white, natural lighting, static framing

Two men are visible in a wooded outdoor setting; one embraces another while a third man stands nearby holding a rifle. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 4:48 (passage 4:46–4:49); US record: No renewal found

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