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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 331 · permalink

Forest

1:04:07–1:04:32 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 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:04:091:04:09Frame at 1:04:111:04:11Frame at 1:04:201:04:20Frame at 1:04:281:04:28

Play from 1:04:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 181 · shots 841–845. 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
People
  • man in military-style uniform with helmet, belt, and pouches, standing with arms crossed visible
  • man in hat and loose shirt, standing beside a woman visible
  • woman with curly hair, wearing a blouse and skirt visible
  • man in military-style uniform and helmet, standing next to the woman visible
Seen happening
  • A man in uniform stands alone with arms crossed. [frame:1]
  • The ground is shown, littered with small debris. [frame:2]
  • Three people — two men and a woman — stand together outdoors near a tree. [frame:3]
  • The same three people remain in frame, slightly shifted in posture. [frame:4]
Also said
“Was that sour thing a tellin' what aimed the gun?” 64:21 · “The feudal.” 64:29
Seen
military uniform [frame:1, frame:3, frame:4], helmet [frame:1, frame:3, frame:4], belt and pouches [frame:1, frame:3, frame:4], hat [frame:3, frame:4], tree trunk [frame:3, frame:4], ground with debris [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: military presence in rural setting, dialogue-driven interaction, mystery around a flying machine and gun; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, static framing

A man in a military-style uniform stands alone, then a group of three people — two men and a woman — are shown together outdoors. Dialogue references a flying machine at 3,200 feet and a 'sour thing' that aimed a gun.

“How far up was that flying machine?” 64:15 · “3,200 feet.” 64:19 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 1:04:09 (passage 1:04:07–1:04:32); US record: No renewal found

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