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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 85 · permalink

Kitchen

12:31–12:56 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes 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 12:3912:39Frame at 12:5212:52

Play from 12:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 57 · shots 194–195. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(kitchen, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Cindy (named at t:12:51): woman, curly hair, wearing a collared shirt and skirt, holding a plate visible, audible
  • Don (named at t:12:46): man, wearing a military uniform and cap, holding a plate visible, audible
Also said
“Your plum scrumsh is too, Don.” 12:46 · “What's in love with you?” 12:54
Seen
plate [frame:1], lantern [frame:1], shelves with jars [frame:1], military uniform [frame:1], cap [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate and slightly tense; themes: romantic reunion, military service, domestic setting; style notes: medium close-up, static framing, high-contrast lighting with shadows, period costume

A woman and a man in uniform speak in a dimly lit interior; the man identifies himself as a buck private. The woman is holding a plate and they stand near shelves with jars and a lantern.

“Down, Elveth.” 12:32 · “Nah, just a buck private, Cindy.” 12:51 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 12:39 (passage 12:31–12:56); US record: No renewal found

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