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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 300 · permalink

Field

59:50–1:00:18 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; 6 names 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 59:5159:51Frame at 59:5459:54Frame at 1:00:011:00:01Frame at 1:00:141:00:14

Play from 59:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 164 · shots 744–749. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • soldier in helmet and uniform, crouching visible
  • soldier in helmet and uniform, crouching beside p1 visible
  • soldier in helmet, sitting alone near roots visible
  • man in hat and light shirt, standing near barrier visible
  • woman in dress, standing between p4 and p6 visible
  • man in uniform, standing near barrier visible
Seen happening
  • Two soldiers crouch near bushes. [frame:1]
  • An explosion erupts in a field with smoke and debris. [frame:2]
  • A soldier sits alone near tree roots. [frame:3]
  • Three people stand near a wooden barrier in a wooded area. [frame:4]
Also said
“Please.” 60:15 · “Yes.” 59:51
Seen
helmet [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], uniform [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], wooden barrier [frame:4], explosion smoke [frame:2], tree roots [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and abrupt; themes: war, sudden violence, human reaction to crisis; style notes: black-and-white, medium to wide shots, natural outdoor lighting, abrupt cuts between action and character reactions

Two soldiers are shown crouching near bushes, then an explosion occurs in a field, followed by a soldier sitting alone, and finally three people stand near a wooden barrier in a wooded area. The transcript includes fragmented phrases such as "One suicide" and "I'm going to go."

“One suicide.” 60:03 · “I'm going to go.” 60:06 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 59:51 (passage 59:50–1:00:18); US record: No renewal found

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