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0:44–1:14 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 0:470:47Frame at 0:530:53Frame at 1:021:02Frame at 1:101:10

Play from 0:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends. Sequence 4 · shots 7–10. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Seen
text credits, cabin illustration, National Board of Review seal
On screen
WITH DORIS LINDEN JIMMIE DODD ANDRAIA PALMER PAT McVEIGH FRANK AUSTIN / ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY JOHN GREY AND JACK HENLEY LLOYD FRENCH AND DONOHO HALL / SONG "TIMES A-WASTIN'" OLSEN AND JOHNSON JAY LEVINSON - RAY EVANS / SONG "THE YARD BIRD" - JIMMIE DODD MUSICAL DIRECTOR RUDY SCHRAGER / Director of Photography - Marcel Le Picard,asc Art Director - Richard Irvine Film Editor - Robert Crandall Assistant Production Manager - Nelson L. Gross Sound Director - William Fox Make-up Supervision - Ern. Westmore / PRODUCED BY EDWARD GROSS ASSOCIATES JACK DIETZ - DAN KEEFE / CLASSIFIED AND PASSED BY THE NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW Western Electric WIDE RANGE SYSTEM
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: film production credits, studio-era presentation; style notes: The credits are presented in a static, centered composition with high-contrast black text over a simple, monochrome background illustration. The lighting is flat and even, typical of title sequences from the era.

This beat displays the opening credits of the 1942 film PRIVATE SNUFFY SMITH, listing cast and crew over a static background illustration of a rustic cabin. No characters appear, and no dialogue or action occurs during these frames.

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 0:47 (passage 0:44–1:14); US record: No renewal found

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