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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 87 · permalink

Private office

13:17–13:49 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; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 13:2113:21Frame at 13:3013:30Frame at 13:3813:38Frame at 13:4613:46

Play from 13:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 57 · shots 199–202. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, young adult, medium build, dark hair, wearing dark jacket visible, audible
  • woman, young adult, medium build, curly dark hair, wearing light patterned blouse visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Man and woman face each other in close-up, speaking. [frame:1]
  • Woman smiles at man. [frame:2]
  • Man and woman lean closer, nearly touching faces. [frame:3]
  • Man bends over an object; woman looks down at it. [frame:4]
Also said
“and maybe but he can't keep me from loving you.” 13:25 · “Oh, that you're weird looking.” 13:47
Seen
dark jacket, patterned blouse, unidentified object man bends over, indistinct furniture in background
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate and conversational; themes: romantic tension, dialogue-driven interaction; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static camera

A man and a woman are shown in close-up, speaking to each other in an interior setting; the man later bends over an object while the woman looks on. No names are spoken that can be assigned to the visible characters.

“Oh, Anakin, what you be a-doing?” 13:17 · “If an he be seeing an LB,” 13:20 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 13:21 (passage 13:17–13:49); US record: No renewal found

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