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Minesweeper · Beat 109 · permalink

Open water

27:22–27:26 Registered 1943

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name 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 27:2427:24

Play from 27:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 66 · shots 249–249. 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 visible in a small boat, wearing dark clothing, seated at helm visible
Seen happening
  • Two small boats are on open water, one with a person visible at the helm. [frame:1]
Seen
small boat [frame:1], small boat with person at helm [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, observational; themes: maritime, navigation; style notes: black and white, wide shot, natural lighting, no close-ups

Two small boats are visible on open water, one with a person visible at the helm. The scene is shot in black and white with no on-screen text or dialogue.

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 27:24 (passage 27:22–27:26); US record: No renewal found

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