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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 305 · permalink

Field

1:00:51–1:00:54 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:00:521:00:52Frame at 1:00:541:00:54

Play from 1:00:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 167 · shots 760–761. 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
People
  • soldier in helmet and uniform, crouching behind cover visible
  • soldier in helmet and uniform, standing and looking through binoculars visible
  • soldier in helmet and uniform, standing with hand on hip visible
  • soldier in helmet and uniform, partially visible behind others visible
Seen happening
  • Military vehicles are seen moving across a field. [frame:1]
  • Soldiers in helmets observe from behind foliage and rocks. [frame:2]
Seen
military vehicles [frame:1], helmets [frame:2], binoculars [frame:2], rocks and foliage [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: military observation, wartime movement; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot of soldiers, wide shot of vehicles, high-contrast lighting

Military vehicles move across a field while soldiers in helmets observe from behind cover. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 1:00:52 (passage 1:00:51–1:00:54); US record: No renewal found

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