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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 319 · permalink

Forest

1:02:45–1:03:05 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:02:491:02:49Frame at 1:02:571:02:57Frame at 1:03:021:03:02Frame at 1:03:041:03:04

Play from 1:02:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 174 · shots 813–819. 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
  • person in light-colored shirt and trousers, holding a white object to face visible
  • group of people in varied attire, some with hats, standing around equipment in woods visible
  • hand wearing light-colored sleeve, inserting paper into device visible
Seen happening
  • A person holds a white object to their face. [frame:1]
  • A group of people stand around equipment in a wooded area. [frame:2]
  • The group remains gathered, some looking upward. [frame:3]
  • A hand inserts a piece of paper into a cylindrical device. [frame:4]
Seen
white object held to face, wooded area with trees and underbrush, group of people with equipment (possibly cameras or tripods), cylindrical device with paper being inserted
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or suspenseful; themes: group reaction, mystery, technical device; style notes: black-and-white, medium and close-up shots, natural outdoor lighting

A group of people in a wooded area react to an event; one person holds a white object to their face while others gather around equipment. A hand inserts a paper into a cylindrical device.

“I think they're dead.” 62:51 · “Come on, let's try something hard. What? Who's looking?” 62:54 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 1:02:49 (passage 1:02:45–1:03:05); US record: No renewal found

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