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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 73 · permalink

Forest

11:02–11:22 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 11:0411:04Frame at 11:1211:12Frame at 11:1711:17Frame at 11:2111:21

Play from 11:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 49 · shots 169–175. 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
  • man wearing a light-colored hat, light shirt, and dark tie, medium build visible, audible
  • person wearing a dark head covering and light dress with a dark bow at the neck, visible from chest up visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man in the hat is seen outdoors in a forested area, partially obscured by foliage. [frame:1]
  • The man in the hat is indoors, leaning over a desk or counter. [frame:2]
  • The man in the hat reacts to being bitten, holding his hand near his chest. [frame:3]
  • A person in a head covering speaks with an open mouth, looking upward. [frame:4]
Also said
“Oh, he bit me!” 11:11 · “He might bit you, but you ain't tasty.” 11:17
Seen
hat, tie, desk or counter, head covering, dress with bow
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and comedic; themes: confrontation, humor through threat and injury; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static camera

A man in a hat and tie is seen in a wooded area and then indoors, reacting to being bitten while another person speaks. The transcript includes a threat to shoot and a comment about not being tasty.

“Hey, come on out or I'll start shooting.” 11:03 · “Oh, you won't, huh?” 11:07 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 11:04 (passage 11:02–11:22); US record: No renewal found

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