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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 3 · permalink

Private office

0:24–0:44 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 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 0:330:33Frame at 0:420:42

Play from 0:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: picture changes. Sequence 3 · shots 5–6. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman wearing a bonnet and a dress with a large collar visible
  • man with a mustache wearing a military uniform with shoulder insignia and a cap visible
Seen
bonnet [frame:1], military uniform with insignia [frame:2], military cap [frame:2]
On screen
[{'text': 'BY SARAH PADDEN', 'evidence': 'frame:1'}, {'text': 'BY J. FARRELL MACDONALD', 'evidence': 'frame:2'}]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and static; themes: military authority, character introduction; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, studio set with minimal background detail

Two characters are shown in medium close-up: one in a bonnet and dress, the other in a military uniform with insignia. Text overlays credit Sarah Padden and J. Farrell MacDonald for their roles.

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 0:33 (passage 0:24–0:44); US record: No renewal found

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