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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 313 · permalink

Forest

1:02:15–1:02:31 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: visible event not seen. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:02:161:02:16Frame at 1:02:191:02:19Frame at 1:02:241:02:24Frame at 1:02:301:02:30

Play from 1:02:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 170 · shots 797–806. 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, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • man in military-style hat and jacket, holding binoculars visible
  • man in light shirt and military hat, holding binoculars visible
  • group of men and one woman in military-style clothing, some seated, some standing near a machine gun visible
  • three men in military hats and shirts, standing near a tent, one holding a map visible
Seen happening
  • Two men raise binoculars to their eyes. [frame:1]
  • A close-up shows a machine gun barrel with a white object inserted. [frame:2]
  • A group of soldiers and a woman stand and sit around a machine gun in a wooded area. [frame:3]
  • Three men in uniform stand near a tent, one pointing at a map. [frame:4]
Also said
“Wrecked in. Ooh, let's go.” 62:23 · “Range 632.” 62:26
Seen
binoculars, machine gun, map, tent
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and preparatory; themes: military observation, preparation for action, group coordination; style notes: black-and-white, medium and close-up shots, natural lighting with shadows suggesting outdoor setting, static camera

Two men with binoculars observe from a wooded area; a group gathers around a machine gun; officers consult a map near a tent. No names are spoken, and no time of day or period is established.

“I'm going to go.” 62:16 · “I'm going to go.” 62:19 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 1:02:16 (passage 1:02:15–1:02:31); US record: No renewal found

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