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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 299 · permalink

Forest

59:25–59:50 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; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 59:2959:29Frame at 59:3659:36Frame at 59:3959:39Frame at 59:4659:46

Play from 59:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 164 · shots 736–743. 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:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • soldier in helmet and uniform, carrying backpack and rifle visible
  • soldier in helmet and uniform, crouching near bushes visible
  • soldier in helmet and uniform, standing with rifle visible
  • soldier in helmet and uniform, carrying backpack visible
Seen happening
  • Soldiers are gathered around a bright light source in a wooded area. [frame:1]
  • Soldiers are moving across a grassy field with trees in the background. [frame:2]
  • A tank is emitting thick black smoke in a field. [frame:3]
  • Two soldiers are crouching near bushes, one holding a rifle. [frame:4]
Also said
“Hey, what's going on here?” 59:31 · “Oh, my God.” 59:36
Seen
helmet [frame:1, frame:2, frame:4], rifle [frame:2, frame:4], backpack [frame:1, frame:2, frame:4], tank [frame:3], smoke [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: war, combat, military action; style notes: black-and-white, medium to long shots, natural outdoor lighting, dynamic composition with soldiers in motion

Soldiers are shown in a wooded outdoor area during what appears to be a combat situation; one frame shows a tank emitting smoke. Dialogue includes repeated exclamations of 'You're dead' and a reaction of shock.

“You're dead.” 59:25 · “You're dead.” 59:29 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 59:29 (passage 59:25–59:50); US record: No renewal found

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