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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 274 · permalink

Kitchen

56:55–57:18 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; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 56:5956:59Frame at 57:0657:06Frame at 57:1057:10Frame at 57:1557:15

Play from 56:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 150 · shots 685–688. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
kitchen (kitchen, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman wearing a headscarf and a buttoned coat, seated visible, audible
  • woman with curled hair, wearing a blouse with a low neckline, seated visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two women sit at a table with cups. [frame:1]
  • The woman in the headscarf speaks to the other woman. [frame:2]
  • The woman with curled hair looks away thoughtfully. [frame:3]
  • The woman in the headscarf points at the other woman while speaking. [frame:4]
Also said
“I'll be telling you the secret.” 57:12 · “If you promise you won't tell Snuffy.” 57:13
Seen
cups [frame:1], table [frame:1], headscarf [frame:1], buttoned coat [frame:1], curled hair [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and secretive; themes: secrets, confidentiality, interpersonal tension; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, high contrast lighting, static camera

Two women sit at a table in a dimly lit interior, one wearing a headscarf and the other with curled hair; they converse while holding cups. One woman promises to reveal a secret if the other agrees not to tell Snuffy, who is mentioned but not shown.

“Don be a letter telling that.” 56:55 · “He'd be a-talking to and a-feeding Mr. Carson” 57:01 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 56:59 (passage 56:55–57:18); US record: No renewal found

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