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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 30 · permalink

Forest

6:00–6:16 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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 6:016:01Frame at 6:046:04Frame at 6:086:08Frame at 6:136:13

Play from 6:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 19 · shots 74–77. 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
  • Snuffy (named at t:6:01): man wearing a wide-brimmed hat, coat, and boots, holding a rifle visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Snuffy is crouched in the forest, partially obscured by foliage. [frame:1]
  • Snuffy sits holding a rifle, looking forward. [frame:2]
  • Snuffy is again seen from behind, crouched in the forest. [frame:3]
  • Snuffy sits near barrels, holding a rifle. [frame:4]
Also said
“But I've got to stop that revenue.” 6:13
Seen
rifle [frame:2, frame:4], barrels [frame:4], hat [frame:2, frame:4], coat [frame:2, frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and focused; themes: outdoor survival, individual resistance, rural setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural lighting with high contrast shadows, static framing

A man in a hat and coat is seen in a wooded outdoor setting, holding a rifle and sitting near barrels. He speaks about not throwing a limb unless sure of hitting, hating store-bought clothes, and needing to stop revenue.

“Snuffy, don't be a throwing limb till you know you can't miss.” 6:01 · “I hate to be a spiraling store bought clothes.” 6:09 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 6:01 (passage 6:00–6:16); US record: No renewal found

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