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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 254 · permalink

Camp

52:08–52:36 Registered 1942

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

Frame at 52:1352:13Frame at 52:2152:21Frame at 52:2852:28Frame at 52:3352:33

Play from 52:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 142 · shots 630–633. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
camp (camp, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:4
People
  • Captain Robinson (named at t:52:09): man in military uniform and cap, middle-aged, medium build visible, audible
  • man in military uniform and cap, older, heavier build visible, audible
  • Yardbert Smith (named at t:52:23): person in overalls and hat, seen from back, smaller stature visible
  • group of men in military uniforms, visible in background visible
Seen happening
  • Two officers stand under a tent and speak. [frame:1]
  • One officer gestures while speaking to the other. [frame:2]
  • A third person enters the tent and stands between the officers. [frame:3]
  • A group of men gather around a table outdoors under trees. [frame:4]
Also said
“You take your orders from him?” 52:27 · “Wait here, I have some special instructions for you.” 52:29
Seen
tent, military uniforms, table, radio equipment, trees
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and procedural; themes: military command, authority delegation, field operations; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups under tent, wide shot outdoors; lighting suggests daylight but not time-specific

Two officers speak under a tent while a third person enters; later, a group gathers around a table outdoors. The dialogue indicates a military command structure and the appointment of a scout.

“Watch it, Captain Robinson.” 52:09 · “I've appointed Yardbert Smith my chief scout. He knows this country better than anybody else.” 52:23 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 52:13 (passage 52:08–52:36); US record: No renewal found

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