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Minesweeper · Beat 116 · permalink

Private office

29:22–30:03 Registered 1943

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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 29:2629:26Frame at 29:4329:43Frame at 29:5029:50Frame at 30:0130:01

Play from 29:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 69 · shots 272–277. 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 in naval officer uniform, white cap, dark jacket, mid-adult visible, audible
  • man in dark naval uniform, no cap, mid-adult, visible in profile visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Man p1 holds a small object and looks at p2. [frame:1]
  • Man p2 turns toward p1 while speaking. [frame:2]
  • Man p1 responds while holding the object. [frame:3]
  • Scene darkens; only faint outlines of the two men are visible. [frame:4]
Seen
naval officer cap [frame:1], small object held by p1 [frame:1], wall emblem with crossed anchors and text [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, confined; themes: military hierarchy, personal conflict, obscured communication; style notes: high-contrast lighting, tight framing, static camera, black-and-white film stock

Two men in naval uniforms are in a dimly lit interior, one holding an object while speaking; the scene ends in near darkness. No names are spoken, and no external environment is visible.

“I think you give me one of those. I'm stuck.” 29:29 · “No I don't you come up the house the mom. My apologies when you make good. They are. What's that. You're going to be your time. Not a struggle. Right. Later.” 29:32 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 29:26 (passage 29:22–30:03); US record: No renewal found

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