Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 303 · permalink

Road

1:00:47–1:00:50 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

1:00:49

Play from 1:00:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 166 · shots 758–758. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place

road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:1

Seen happening

A cloud of dust and smoke erupts from the brush beside a dirt road. [frame:1]

Seen

dust and smoke cloud [frame:1], brush and trees [frame:1], dirt road [frame:1]

Interpretation

Model opinion, not evidence: mood: sudden and chaotic; themes: explosion, rural setting; style notes: static wide shot, high-contrast black and white, natural outdoor lighting

A cloud of dust and smoke erupts from a brushy area beside a dirt road. No people or vehicles are visible in the frame.

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 1:00:49 (passage 1:00:47–1:00:50); US record: No renewal found

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Card image: https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/private_snuffy_smith/b303.png
Figure for a newsletter or page: <figure><a href="https://publicreel.org/moment/private_snuffy_smith/b303"><img src="https://publicreel.org/atlas-img/private_snuffy_smith/0758.webp" alt="Frame from Private Snuffy Smith (1942) at 1:00:49 (passage 1:00:47–1:00:50); US record: No renewal found" width="640"></a><figcaption>Private Snuffy Smith (1942), 1:00:47–1:00:50. Internet Archive copy private_snuffy_smith; US record: No renewal found. Via Public Reel.</figcaption></figure>
Cite: Public Reel, "Private Snuffy Smith (1942), 1:00:47–1:00:50", https://publicreel.org/moment/private_snuffy_smith/b303, from Internet Archive item private_snuffy_smith, retrieved 6 September 2026.

Road

Evidence and details

The record

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