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Minesweeper · Beat 103 · permalink

Ocean

25:53–25:57 Registered 1943

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 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 25:5525:55

Play from 25:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 61 · shots 234–234. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ocean (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • sailor in dark uniform and white hat, holding oar, facing camera visible
  • sailor in white hat, seen from behind, seated in boat visible
Seen
oar [frame:1], small boat [frame:1], sailor uniforms [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: naval duty, maritime setting; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast black and white, natural lighting, open water background

Two sailors are visible in a small boat on open water. One sailor holds an oar while looking toward the camera.

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 Minesweeper (1943) at 25:55 (passage 25:53–25:57); US record: No renewal found

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