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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 76 · permalink

Forest

11:46–11:55 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 11:4811:48Frame at 11:5211:52

Play from 11:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 51 · shots 184–185. 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, dark tie, and badge on chest visible
  • man wearing a light-colored hat, light shirt, dark tie visible
Seen
hat, tie, badge, wooden structure
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspenseful; themes: mystery, observation, rural setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot of characters, natural lighting in forest, studio lighting on actors

Two men in hats and shirts stand in front of a wooden structure; a forest scene with dense foliage is shown. A line of dialogue suggests something moved, though it is not visible in the frames.

“Don't tell me I didn't see it move that time.” 11:49 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 11:48 (passage 11:46–11:55); US record: No renewal found

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