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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 97 · permalink

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15:08–15:41 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; 3 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 15:1215:12Frame at 15:2115:21Frame at 15:2915:29Frame at 15:3715:37

Play from 15:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 64 · shots 219–222. 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 in military uniform, young adult, average build visible, audible
  • woman with curly hair, wearing a patterned dress, young adult visible, audible
  • older man with hat and suspenders, holding a small object visible, audible
Also said
“Cat with breeches too.” 15:22 · “The government gives you all you can eat and they let you sleep all the time.” 15:30
Seen
military uniform [frame:1], gold buttons [frame:2], khaki breeches [frame:3], hat and suspenders [frame:4], shelves with hats and jars [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted and conversational; themes: military enlistment, government support for soldiers, humor in uniform details; style notes: medium close-up shots, static camera, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, typical of 1940s studio production

A man in a military uniform speaks with a woman and an older man in a rustic interior. The transcript includes dialogue about enlisting, government provisions, and uniform details like gold buttons and khaki breeches.

“I enlisted to help Uncle Sam.” 15:10 · “Gold buttons. I bet they'd be costing you a heap. Oh, no, the government gives them to you.” 15:15 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 15:12 (passage 15:08–15:41); US record: No renewal found

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