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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 96 · permalink

Private office

14:40–15:08 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 14:4214:42Frame at 14:4814:48Frame at 14:5614:56Frame at 15:0415:04

Play from 14:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 64 · shots 215–218. 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:2
People
  • Snuffy Smith (named at t:14:43): man in military uniform, mid-30s, average build visible, audible
  • man in overalls and hat, late 30s, stocky visible, audible
  • woman with curly hair, wearing a light dress, 20s-30s visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a military uniform embraces a woman while holding a guitar. [frame:1]
  • The uniformed man stands facing the man in overalls and the woman in a wooden room. [frame:2]
  • The man in overalls gestures toward his face while speaking to the uniformed man. [frame:3]
  • The man in overalls turns away toward a table while the uniformed man and woman look on. [frame:4]
Also said
“They'd be up at my cabin.” 14:55 · “Who would only be a feudin'? There ain't been no Indians in these parts for more than 50 years.” 15:02
Seen
guitar [frame:1], military uniform [frame:2], overalls [frame:2], hat [frame:2], wooden cabin interior [frame:2], table [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: identity confusion, rural evasion, military vs civilian roles; style notes: medium shots, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, rustic set design

A man in a military uniform speaks with two civilians inside a rustic wooden cabin; one civilian is a woman in a dress, the other a man in overalls and a hat. The dialogue suggests confusion over the uniformed man's identity and mentions hiding from revenuers.

“Oh. Snuffy Smith. Bowls of fire since when you're becoming a revenue a revenue.” 14:43 · “I thought you was another revenuer.” 14:53 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 14:42 (passage 14:40–15:08); US record: No renewal found

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