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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 56 · permalink

Forest

8:12–8:23 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 8:148:14Frame at 8:168:16Frame at 8:188:18Frame at 8:218:21

Play from 8:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 130–133. 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 wearing a hat and carrying a rifle, medium build visible
  • Floisi (named at t:8:17): woman in long dress holding an axe, visible in partial shadow visible
Seen happening
  • A man walks through a wooded area holding a rifle. [frame:1]
  • A woman stands inside a rustic wooden structure holding an axe. [frame:2]
  • The man walks further into the forest. [frame:3]
  • The woman raises an axe over her shoulder. [frame:4]
Also said
“Table of liberals!” 8:21
Seen
rifle [frame:1], axe [frame:2, frame:4], wooden structure [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and rustic; themes: rural life, confrontation, gender roles; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural lighting with high contrast shadows, static framing

A man in a hat carries a rifle through a wooded area while a woman in a long dress holds an axe nearby. The scene includes dialogue calling out a name and exclaiming about time and a 'table of liberals.'

“Time's a-wasting!” 8:13 · “Floisi!” 8:17 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 8:14 (passage 8:12–8:23); US record: No renewal found

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