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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 83 · permalink

Forest

12:19–12:27 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 12:2312:23

Play from 12:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 56 · shots 192–192. 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 top hat, light shirt, and dark tie, crawling on hands and knees visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a top hat crawls on the ground among leaves and branches. [frame:1]
Seen
top hat, tie, foliage and ground cover
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: mysterious or comedic; themes: outdoor pursuit, unconventional behavior; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up, natural outdoor lighting

A man in a top hat and tie crawls on the ground in an outdoor setting with foliage. The name 'Gardenia' is spoken during this beat.

“Gardenia.” 12:20 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 12:23 (passage 12:19–12:27); US record: No renewal found

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