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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 273 · permalink

Forest

56:26–56:55 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 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 56:2756:27Frame at 56:3656:36Frame at 56:4056:40Frame at 56:5456:54

Play from 56:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 149 · shots 679–684. 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 in hat and patterned shirt, mustache, medium build visible, audible
  • man in hat and plain shirt, standing beside barrels visible, audible
  • man in overalls and hat, holding rifle visible
  • man in hat and vest, standing near barrels visible
Also said
“He's a plum change character.” 56:48 · “I sure am. I mean, I sure am.” 56:53
Seen
wooden barrels [frame:3], rifle [frame:3], hats [frame:2], patterned shirt [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but resolving; themes: conflict resolution, rural life, allegiance shift; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, rural costume

A group of men in rural attire gather around wooden barrels in a wooded area, discussing blue rags and rifle balls. One man claims another has changed character and agrees to help with the blue rags.

“Sure's a mess of them blue rags.” 56:28 · “Fetching up a heap of rifle balls and fancy shooting horns. I'd be a knowin' he's a revenueer.” 56:38 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 56:27 (passage 56:26–56:55); US record: No renewal found

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