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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 260 · permalink

Forest

54:40–54:45 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 1 name 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 54:4254:42

Play from 54:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 145 · shots 655–655. 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 shirt, leaning on barrels visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man leans on barrels and shouts toward off-screen people. [frame:1]
Seen
barrels, hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or confrontational; themes: confrontation, outdoor setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, natural outdoor lighting

A man in a hat leans on barrels outdoors while shouting toward others off-screen. No names, time of day, or period are established in this beat.

“Hey, you fellas over there!” 54:42 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 54:42 (passage 54:40–54:45); US record: No renewal found

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