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Minesweeper · Beat 106 · permalink

Open water

26:16–26:21 Registered 1943

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 26:1826:18

Play from 26:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 64 · shots 240–240. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
open water (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • person in dark clothing, wearing a hat, visible in a small boat visible
  • person in dark clothing, wearing a hat, visible in a small boat visible
  • person in dark clothing, wearing a hat, visible in a small boat visible
Seen happening
  • Several people are in a small boat on open water. [frame:1]
Seen
small boat [frame:1], oars or poles [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or focused; themes: maritime, survival, teamwork; style notes: black and white, wide shot, natural lighting, rough water texture

A small boat with several people is on open water. The scene is shot in black and white with no visible land or structures.

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 26:18 (passage 26:16–26:21); US record: No renewal found

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