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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 279 · permalink

Kitchen

57:55–57:58 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 57:5657:56Frame at 57:5757:57

Play from 57:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 154 · shots 698–699. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(kitchen, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman wearing a bonnet and long dress, standing left visible
  • woman with curly hair, wearing a short-sleeved dress, standing right visible
  • man wearing a shirt, tie, and cap, standing center visible
Seen happening
  • A woman hands a small object to a man. [frame:2]
Seen
wooden spoons hanging on wall [frame:1], small object being handed [frame:2], stone wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: domestic interaction, rural setting; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, staged interior

Two women and a man are shown in a rustic interior with kitchen tools on the wall; one woman hands an object to the man. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 57:56 (passage 57:55–57:58); US record: No renewal found

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