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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 306 · permalink

Field

1:00:54–1:00:55 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.

Frame at 1:00:551:00:55

Play from 1:00:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 168 · shots 762–762. 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
Seen happening
  • A tank is present on a dusty field with smoke or dust in the air. [frame:1]
Seen
tank [frame:1], dust or smoke [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: war, military vehicle; style notes: wide shot, high contrast black and white, dust/smoke creates obscured depth

A tank is visible on a dusty field with smoke or dust obscuring the background. No people, dialogue, or on-screen text are visible in the single 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 1:00:55 (passage 1:00:54–1:00:55); US record: No renewal found

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