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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 98 · permalink

Cabin

15:41–16:06 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; 4 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 15:4615:46Frame at 15:5615:56Frame at 15:5915:59Frame at 16:0516:05

Play from 15:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 64 · shots 223–228. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
cabin (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark uniform, light hair, medium build visible, audible
  • woman with curly hair, wearing light dress visible
  • Snuffy (named at t:15:49): man wearing wide-brimmed hat, suspenders, older face visible
  • man wearing hat, seen through window visible
Seen happening
  • A man in uniform and a woman stand together while another man in a hat watches them. [frame:1]
  • The man in uniform and woman embrace while the man in the hat stands at a table. [frame:2]
  • A man wearing a hat peers through a window from outside. [frame:3]
  • The man in uniform and woman remain embracing as the man in the hat walks away in the background. [frame:4]
Also said
“Snuffy.” 15:49 · “I hope so. You'll be the first L.B. I ever see to live in Sol's cabin.” 15:57
Seen
wooden table, stone fireplace, window with wooden frame, hat, uniform jacket, suspender pants
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: military life, domestic setting, character introduction; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static framing, studio lighting

Three people are in a rustic cabin interior; one man in uniform speaks with a woman while another man in a hat watches. A fourth man is seen looking through a window from outside.

“And you're getting your smokings?” 15:44 · “No, but they pay you 30 a month and you can buy them.” 15:46 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 15:46 (passage 15:41–16:06); US record: No renewal found

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