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10:33–11:02 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 10:3610:36Frame at 10:4410:44Frame at 10:5110:51Frame at 10:5810:58

Play from 10:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 49 · shots 165–168. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Smith (named at t:11:00): man wearing a hat, light shirt, dark tie, and belt with a holster visible, audible
  • woman wearing a headscarf and dark dress with a white collar visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man stands near a wooden chair in a cluttered room. [frame:1]
  • The man stands with hands on hips facing the seated woman. [frame:2]
  • The man holds a coiled rope while speaking to the woman. [frame:3]
  • The man raises his hat while standing near a stool. [frame:4]
Also said
“How does he look? - Horrible.” 10:46 · “Come on, crawl out of there, Smith.” 11:00
Seen
wooden chair [frame:1], broom [frame:1], shelves with jars and bottles [frame:2], coiled rope [frame:3], wooden stool [frame:4], table with bowls and cups [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: confrontation, rural setting, identity and naming; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static camera, high-contrast lighting emphasizing characters over background

A man in a hat and tie stands in a rustic interior with shelves and a broom, speaking to a seated woman in a headscarf. The transcript includes dialogue about 'Snuffy' and a 'bar', and the man gestures with a rope while addressing someone named Smith.

“Why sluffy smell?” 10:36 · “- Will you be seeing my snuffy? - Yeah.” 10:42 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 10:36 (passage 10:33–11:02); US record: No renewal found

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