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Private Snuffy Smith · Beat 99 · permalink

Private office

16:06–16:38 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; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 16:0816:08Frame at 16:1816:18Frame at 16:2316:23Frame at 16:3716:37

Play from 16:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 64 · shots 229–234. 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 wearing hat and vest, holding rifle visible, audible
  • Snuffy (named at t:16:28): man wearing hat and suspenders, facing p1 visible, audible
  • woman in dress, intervening between p1 and p2 visible
  • man in hat and coat, standing outside wooden structure visible
Seen happening
  • A man points a rifle at another man indoors. [frame:2]
  • A woman steps between the two men. [frame:3]
  • A man stands alone outside a wooden structure. [frame:4]
Also said
“You be going alone because I'm sending him to the graveyard. Do you think I can do it? Time's wasting!” 16:15 · “Come on, get in, Snuffy. I'll drive you home.” 16:28
Seen
rifle, stone fireplace, wooden structure, hat, vest, suspenders, dress
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: confrontation, refusal to comply, domestic tension; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costume, indoor setting with rustic props

A man threatens another with a rifle indoors while a woman intervenes; a second man is seen alone outside a wooden structure. The dialogue indicates a confrontation over going to the army and a refusal to return home.

“You ain't living long.” 16:08 · “Be a lower in your gun Saul. Don are coming to take me to the army.” 16:10 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 16:08 (passage 16:06–16:38); US record: No renewal found

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