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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 310 · permalink

Forest

1:01:11–1:01:24 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:01:121:01:12Frame at 1:01:161:01:16Frame at 1:01:201:01:20Frame at 1:01:221:01:22

Play from 1:01:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 170 · shots 767–770. 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 and helmet, kneeling, reaching for rifle visible
  • man in overalls and hat, standing near barrels visible
  • man in shirt and hat, standing near barrels visible
  • man in hat, partially visible behind barrel visible
Seen happening
  • A man in military gear kneels beside a rifle near a tree. [frame:1]
  • Three men stand near barrels in a wooded area. [frame:2]
  • The kneeling man looks up while holding a rifle. [frame:3]
  • The group of men remains near barrels, looking toward the kneeling man. [frame:4]
Also said
“- Show!” 61:18 · “Ah, Noda's a-beating him.” 61:21
Seen
rifle, barrels, tree, military-style uniform, overalls
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, military vs civilian, authority; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, static framing

A man in military-style gear kneels by a rifle near a tree while others stand near barrels; dialogue suggests a confrontation over a gun. No named characters are identified in the transcript.

“This your army gun ain't no way.” 61:14 · “I'd put a beat on them and they ain't a fool.” 61:15 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 1:01:12 (passage 1:01:11–1:01:24); US record: No renewal found

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