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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 275 · permalink

Kitchen

57:18–57:29 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 57:2257:22Frame at 57:2857:28

Play from 57:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 151 · shots 689–690. 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
  • person wearing a hooded coat and a dark skirt, holding a dog and later pouring from a jug visible
Seen happening
  • Person holds a dog in their arms. [frame:1]
  • Person pours liquid from a metal jug. [frame:2]
Seen
dog, metal jug, stone fireplace, hanging utensils
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: domestic and slightly rustic; themes: rural life, everyday chores; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, period costume

A person in a hooded coat holds a dog in one frame and pours from a metal jug in the next. The transcript mentions 'Mr Carson' and 'the joke' during this beat.

“There be Mr Carson.” 57:22 · “There'd be the joke.” 57:26 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 57:22 (passage 57:18–57:29); US record: No renewal found

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