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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 27 · permalink

Forest

4:52–5:18 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; 2 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 4:564:56Frame at 5:005:00Frame at 5:085:08Frame at 5:155:15

Play from 4:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 19 · shots 64–68. 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, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • man in overalls and hat, holding rifle and jar visible
  • Wilson (named at t:5:03): man in light shirt and pants, walking beside p1 visible
Seen happening
  • Man p1 holds a rifle and a jar of nails. [frame:1]
  • Close-up of jar containing nails. [frame:2]
  • Man p1 walks through trees with rifle. [frame:3]
  • Man p1 and man p2 walk side by side through woods. [frame:4]
Also said
“All right, all right.” 5:12 · “Hey, Wilson.” 5:17
Seen
rifle, jar of nails, overalls, hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and comedic; themes: comedy, accidental conflict, outdoor adventure; style notes: black-and-white, medium and close-up shots, natural lighting in outdoor setting

A man in overalls holds a rifle and a jar of nails while another man walks beside him in a wooded area. Dialogue indicates an apology and a request to proceed, with one man calling out to 'Wilson'.

“Hey, Wilson, Wilson, you hit me right in the face with that.” 5:03 · “I'm sorry, Chief. You go first.” 5:09 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 4:56 (passage 4:52–5:18); US record: No renewal found

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