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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 41 · permalink

Forest

6:50–6:57 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 6:516:51Frame at 6:546:54Frame at 6:566:56

Play from 6:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 25 · shots 96–98. 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
  • wearing a hat and long-sleeved shirt, crouching visible
  • lying on ground, wearing hat and coat visible
Seen happening
  • Two figures are visible in a wooded area; one is lying on the ground, the other is crouching. [frame:1]
  • The crouching figure moves slightly, still near the prone figure. [frame:2]
  • The crouching figure looks toward the prone figure. [frame:3]
Seen
hat, coat, trees and bushes
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict, outdoor danger; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural lighting filtered through trees, static camera

Two figures are shown in a wooded area; one is lying on the ground while the other crouches nearby. A gunshot is heard during this sequence.

“*gunshot*” 6:50 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 6:51 (passage 6:50–6:57); US record: No renewal found

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