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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 324 · permalink

Forest

1:03:24–1:03:41 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 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 1:03:251:03:25Frame at 1:03:341:03:34Frame at 1:03:371:03:37Frame at 1:03:401:03:40

Play from 1:03:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 177 · shots 827–833. 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 a hat and tie, standing with arms crossed visible
  • man in a military-style uniform, holding a rifle visible
  • man in a hat and shirt, standing with hands on hips visible
  • woman in a long dress and head covering, holding a rifle visible
Seen happening
  • A man in uniform speaks while holding a rifle. [frame:1]
  • A man in a hat and shirt gestures while speaking. [frame:2]
  • A woman in a head covering holds a rifle and looks surprised. [frame:3]
  • The same woman continues to hold the rifle and looks upward. [frame:4]
Also said
“Take him away.” 63:36
Seen
rifle [frame:1], hat [frame:1], military uniform [frame:1], long dress [frame:1], head covering [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict, authority, gender roles; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, outdoor natural lighting, static framing

Four people stand in a wooded outdoor area; one man speaks while another holds a rifle. A line is spoken about taking khaki breeches and ordering someone away.

“- Why, Wheezy? - He be helping me bring in these two filth combs.” 63:26 · “He'll be trying to take my khaki breeches.” 63:32 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 1:03:25 (passage 1:03:24–1:03:41); US record: No renewal found

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