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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 330 · permalink

Forest

1:03:54–1:04:07 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; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:03:571:03:57Frame at 1:04:041:04:04

Play from 1:03:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 181 · shots 839–840. 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
  • Rangefinder (named at t:64:00): man in military uniform and helmet, medium build visible, audible
  • woman in headscarf and long dress, medium build visible
  • woman with hair in bun, wearing apron and holding papers visible
  • older man in military helmet and light shirt, carrying sidearm visible
Seen happening
  • A soldier kisses a woman. [frame:1]
  • Three people stand near a tree; one soldier faces another soldier and a woman. [frame:2]
Also said
“Thank you, sir. I knowed you'd win the war.” 64:03 · “Gosh, honey.” 64:06
Seen
military helmet, military uniform, headscarf, sidearm holster, papers
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: sentimental and patriotic; themes: wartime romance, military duty, home front support; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, period military costume

A soldier in uniform kisses a woman in a forest setting; another soldier and a woman observe nearby. A voice thanks the soldier and mentions sending a report to the War Department.

“You're right about that, Rangefinder.” 64:00 · “Now send a complete report to the War Department.” 64:01 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 1:03:57 (passage 1:03:54–1:04:07); US record: No renewal found

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