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14:05–14:20 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; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 14:0914:09Frame at 14:1714:17

Play from 14:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 57 · shots 205–206. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, young adult, wearing a dark military-style uniform with epaulets and collar insignia visible, audible
  • Stella (named at t:14:13): woman, young adult, curly dark hair, wearing a light-colored patterned dress or blouse visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man and woman are shown in close-up, facing each other. [frame:1]
  • The man and woman continue to face each other, the man speaking. [frame:2]
Also said
“Stella.” 14:13 · “A hankering failure.” 14:14
Seen
military-style uniform [frame:1], epaulets [frame:1], collar insignia [frame:1], patterned dress or blouse [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate and slightly tense; themes: personal introduction, romantic or dramatic confrontation; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, studio-lit with soft shadows on faces

A man in a military-style uniform and a woman with curly hair are shown in close-up, facing each other. The woman speaks her name, 'Stella,' and the man responds with a phrase that includes 'a hankering failure.'

“Maybe a long time.” 14:06 · “That ain't no matter.” 14:09 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 14:09 (passage 14:05–14:20); US record: No renewal found

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