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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 53 · permalink

Forest

8:04–8:06 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 8:058:05

Play from 8:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 34 · shots 127–127. 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 light-colored long-sleeve shirt and pants, dark vest, light hat; medium build; visible from waist up visible
Seen happening
  • A person digs with a shovel in a dirt path. [frame:1]
Seen
shovel [frame:1], hat [frame:1], vest [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solitary; themes: labor, isolation; style notes: medium shot, black-and-white, natural lighting, shallow depth of field with blurred background trees

A person in light-colored clothing is digging in a dirt path surrounded by trees and brush. The scene is outdoors in a wooded area with no visible structures or other people.

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 8:05 (passage 8:04–8:06); US record: No renewal found

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