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Minesweeper · Beat 105 · permalink

Ship

26:00–26:16 Registered 1943

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 26:0226:02Frame at 26:0526:05Frame at 26:0926:09Frame at 26:1326:13

Play from 26:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 63 · shots 236–239. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • sailor in dark uniform and white hat, visible in small boat visible, audible
  • sailor in light shirt and white hat, visible in small boat visible, audible
  • sailor in light uniform and cap, using binoculars on ship deck visible
  • sailor in dark uniform and cap, using binoculars on ship deck visible
Seen happening
  • Two sailors are seated in a small boat on water. [frame:1]
  • One sailor in the small boat turns toward the camera. [frame:2]
  • Two sailors on a ship's deck use binoculars. [frame:3]
  • Two sailors in a small boat face each other on water. [frame:4]
Also said
“They're doing all right.” 26:08 · “Those horns look different than the others. I want to take one back to the skipper.” 26:11
Seen
small boat [frame:1], ship deck [frame:3], binoculars [frame:3], sailor uniforms and hats [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and observational; themes: naval duty, observation, communication under pressure; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots on water, high-contrast lighting, static framing

Two sailors are in a small boat on open water; one speaks about taking a horn back to the skipper. Two other sailors on a ship use binoculars to observe.

“Watch yourself, Corny.” 26:01 · “Ah, don't worry about me.” 26:04 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 Minesweeper (1943) at 26:02 (passage 26:00–26:16); US record: No renewal found

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