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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 288 · permalink

Forest

58:30–58:46 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 58:3158:31Frame at 58:3658:36Frame at 58:3858:38Frame at 58:4458:44

Play from 58:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 160 · shots 713–721. 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, frame:3
People
  • man in military uniform with sergeant stripes, wearing a helmet, standing with hands clasped visible
  • man in military uniform with helmet, holding a rifle, profile view visible
  • group of soldiers in uniform, some kneeling, some standing, with equipment visible
Seen happening
  • Two soldiers stand facing each other in conversation. [frame:1]
  • A group of soldiers is gathered in a wooded area with equipment. [frame:3]
Also said
“You missed.” 58:43
Seen
military helmet, rifle, barrel, mounted weapon, military uniform
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: military training, combat, discipline; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, outdoor natural lighting, military uniforms and equipment suggest a wartime setting

Two soldiers in uniform are shown in conversation outdoors, with one holding a rifle. A wider shot reveals a group of soldiers in a wooded area with equipment, including a barrel and a mounted weapon. The transcript indicates a missed shot and a range of 2100, suggesting a shooting exercise or combat scenario.

“You missed, Sergeant.” 58:31 · “Range 2100.” 58:34 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 58:31 (passage 58:30–58:46); US record: No renewal found

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