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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 278 · permalink

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57:34–57:55 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 57:3457:34Frame at 57:3757:37Frame at 57:4957:49Frame at 57:5357:53

Play from 57:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 154 · shots 693–697. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:3, frame:4
People
  • woman with curly hair, wearing a light-colored dress with a headpiece visible
  • woman seen from back, wearing a light-colored dress with a fitted waist visible
  • woman wearing a dark head covering and long dress visible
  • man in uniform with cap, holding a small object visible
Seen happening
  • A woman looks off-screen with a startled expression. [frame:2]
  • Two women stand with their backs to the camera near a stone wall. [frame:3]
  • A man in uniform speaks to a woman while holding an object. [frame:4]
Also said
“Where's Snuffy Smith? He'll be out there with his friend the General.” 57:43 · “Here's the pack where I put the range finder, Janie. You leave that be. That air be snuffed in.” 57:47
Seen
range finder [t:57:47], pack [t:57:47], uniform [frame:4], stone wall [frame:3, frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: military, mystery, confrontation; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, dim lighting, period costumes, static framing

A woman reacts to an off-screen event while two other women and a man in uniform stand near a stone wall; dialogue references Snuffy Smith, a General, and a range finder. The scene appears to be set indoors with dim lighting and period costumes.

“What?” 57:35 · “Devil!” 57:38 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 57:34 (passage 57:34–57:55); US record: No renewal found

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