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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 309 · permalink

Forest

1:00:58–1:01:11 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; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:01:021:01:02Frame at 1:01:091:01:09

Play from 1:00:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 170 · shots 765–766. 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 uniform, helmet, standing center, hands on hips visible
  • man in military uniform, helmet, pointing left visible
  • man in military uniform, helmet, seated left, leaning on barrel visible
  • man in military uniform, helmet, standing right, arm band visible visible
  • man in military uniform, helmet, standing behind p1 visible
  • man in military uniform, helmet, standing far left visible
Seen happening
  • A man in uniform points left while standing among others. [frame:1]
  • Group remains standing in forest, no major movement. [frame:2]
Also said
“You've only got two hits so far.” 61:05 · “Oh, I hate umpires.” 61:08
Seen
military uniforms [frame:1], helmets [frame:1], barrel [frame:1], arm band [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: military camaraderie, sports metaphor in military context, frustration with authority (umpires); style notes: black-and-white, medium group shot, natural outdoor lighting, static framing

A group of men in military uniforms stand outdoors among trees; one man gestures while speaking. Dialogue includes complaints about umpires and comments on a game with only two hits.

“Where are you?” 60:58 · “I'm going to go.” 60:59 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 1:01:02 (passage 1:00:58–1:01:11); US record: No renewal found

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