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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 301 · permalink

Forest

1:00:18–1:00:45 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 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 1:00:191:00:19Frame at 1:00:251:00:25Frame at 1:00:361:00:36Frame at 1:00:431:00:43

Play from 1:00:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 165 · shots 750–756. 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 military-style uniform with helmet and tie, older, medium build visible, audible
  • Snuffy Bee (named at t:60:19): woman wearing headscarf and long dress, holding rifle, middle-aged visible, audible
  • woman with braided hair, wearing dress, younger visible
  • man in hat and suit, older, visible behind fence visible
  • woman in dress, partially visible behind fence visible
Also said
“Which ghost do you be? Look, General, this old gal's batty.” 60:23 · “I'm taking these two filth cones to my snuffy.” 60:26
Seen
rifle [frame:3], wooden fence [frame:1], military helmet [frame:1], headscarf [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comedy with supernatural elements; themes: ghosts, misunderstanding, military vs civilian, invention theft; style notes: medium shots, natural lighting with dappled sunlight, static camera, period costumes

A group of people, including a man in a military-style uniform and a woman holding a rifle, stand near a wooden fence in a wooded area. Dialogue suggests a comedic confrontation involving ghosts and an invention, with one character claiming to be dead.

“If you tell me who am I, Snuffy Bee,” 60:19 · “Sorry, madam, but I'm dead.” 60:21 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 1:00:19 (passage 1:00:18–1:00:45); US record: No renewal found

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