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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 341 · permalink

Forest

1:05:12–1:05:36 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 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 1:05:151:05:15Frame at 1:05:181:05:18Frame at 1:05:221:05:22Frame at 1:05:311:05:31

Play from 1:05:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 189 · shots 856–859. 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
  • soldier in uniform and helmet, standing near artillery visible
  • soldier in uniform and helmet, shorter, standing beside p1 visible
Seen happening
  • Two soldiers stand near artillery in a wooded area with a dog nearby. [frame:1]
  • Two aircraft fly in the sky. [frame:2]
  • Two soldiers stand together in the woods, one taller than the other. [frame:3]
  • The film ends with a cartoon-style title 'THE END' over a rural scene. [frame:4]
Seen
artillery piece, dog, aircraft, helmet, uniform, cartoon-style title card
On screen
{'frame': 4, 'value': 'THE END\nA CAPITAL PRODUCTION'}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: resigned, concluding; themes: warfare, military duty, finality; style notes: black-and-white, wartime military setting, abrupt cut to cartoon ending

Two soldiers stand near artillery in a wooded area while a dog walks nearby; two aircraft fly overhead. The film ends with a cartoon-style 'THE END' title over a rural scene.

“I'm going to go.” 65:15 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 1:05:15 (passage 1:05:12–1:05:36); US record: No renewal found

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