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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 64 · permalink

Kitchen

9:23–9:54 Registered 1942

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

Frame at 9:269:26Frame at 9:339:33Frame at 9:479:47Frame at 9:529:52

Play from 9:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 42 · shots 149–153. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
kitchen (kitchen, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • Don Elby (named at t:9:32): man, middle-aged, mustache, wearing cowboy hat and suspenders visible, audible
  • woman, wearing bonnet and dark dress with white collar visible
  • person, wearing hat, seated at table visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cowboy hat sits at a table with food and a bottle. [frame:1]
  • Two people sit at a table in a rustic kitchen with pots and pans hanging behind them. [frame:2]
  • A woman in a bonnet speaks with her mouth open. [frame:3]
  • The man in the cowboy hat eats with a fork. [frame:4]
Also said
“He be a love-sicklin' for Cindy. Balls of fire. If old Saul ever catches Don Elvey a love-making to his Cindy, I'll be a killin'. Why don't they be callin' this feudal? That high, 1313.” 9:35 · “And pork's going up.” 9:52
Seen
cowboy hat, suspenders, table, bowls, bonnet, fork, bottle
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: conversational and slightly tense; themes: rural life, romantic rivalry, economic concerns; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups and two-shots, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s studio films

A man in a cowboy hat and suspenders is seated at a table, eating and speaking. A woman in a bonnet and another person are also at the table in a rustic interior. The dialogue mentions Don Elby, Cindy, and pork prices.

“Somebody here be smoking foreign tobacco. Old Tom L. B. Stunwell by.” 9:26 · “Don Elby?” 9:32 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 9:26 (passage 9:23–9:54); US record: No renewal found

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