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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 311 · permalink

Battlefield

1:01:24–1:01:56 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; 3 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 1:01:271:01:27Frame at 1:01:351:01:35Frame at 1:01:501:01:50Frame at 1:01:551:01:55

Play from 1:01:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 170 · shots 771–784. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
battlefield (battlefield, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • soldier wearing helmet and light uniform, pointing at tree visible
  • soldiers in dark uniforms and helmets, running through smoke visible
  • soldiers in dark uniforms and helmets, operating artillery visible
Seen happening
  • A soldier points at a tree. [frame:1]
  • An explosion occurs in an open field. [frame:2]
  • Soldiers run through smoke. [frame:3]
  • Soldiers fire artillery. [frame:4]
Also said
“Range six hundred.” 61:52 · “Range 600.” 61:53
Seen
helmet, tree, explosion, artillery piece, smoke
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: warfare, military action, chaos of battle; style notes: black-and-white, wide shots of battlefield action, high contrast lighting, dynamic framing of explosions and movement

A soldier in a helmet points at a tree while others run through smoke and fire in an open field; artillery fires as troops advance. No names are spoken, and the setting is a battlefield with no visible interior or time-of-day indicators.

“Hey, this ain't no place” 61:36 · “Somebody run! Hey, Jepton, try it for him! You don't want to ask him! Look out of the way! Get him, Jepton!” 61:41 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 1:01:27 (passage 1:01:24–1:01:56); US record: No renewal found

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