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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 295 · permalink

Forest

58:55–58:56 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 58:5558:55

Play from 58:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 164 · shots 728–728. 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
People
  • man in hat and jacket, standing visible
  • man in hat and dark coat, standing visible
  • man in light shirt and hat, standing visible
  • man in military-style helmet and uniform, kneeling visible
  • man in military-style helmet, crouching visible
  • man in hat and coat, standing visible
Seen
military helmets [frame:1], rifles [frame:1], barrel [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: military, outdoor gathering, confrontation; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, natural lighting with dappled shadows from trees

A group of men in varied attire, including some in military-style helmets, stand in a wooded outdoor area. 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 58:55 (passage 58:55–58:56); US record: No renewal found

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