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Minesweeper · Beat 118 · permalink

Naval facility

30:05–30:31 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; 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 30:0930:09Frame at 30:1530:15Frame at 30:2130:21Frame at 30:2830:28

Play from 30:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 71 · shots 279–282. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
naval facility (other, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • man in dark naval uniform, short hair, medium build visible, audible
  • Jim (named at t:30:06): man in sailor uniform with white hat, medium build, clean-shaven visible, audible
  • man in sailor uniform with white hat, visible in background, partially obscured visible
  • man in sailor uniform with white hat, visible in background, seated visible
Seen happening
  • Two men in naval uniforms stand close, facing each other in conversation. [frame:1]
  • The man in the dark uniform gestures toward Jim while speaking. [frame:2]
  • Jim touches his face while listening to the other man. [frame:3]
  • The two men stand apart, facing each other in a dimly lit room. [frame:4]
Seen
naval uniforms [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], white sailor hats [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], wall-mounted light fixture [frame:4], poster on wall [frame:2, frame:3], counter or bar [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, conversational; themes: naval camaraderie, personal conflict, duty vs. personal desire; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, high contrast lighting, static camera angles

Two men in naval uniforms converse in a dimly lit interior space; one appears to be persuading or confronting the other. The setting includes a wall-mounted light and a poster, suggesting a naval facility.

“Hey, sir. Well, do me a favor, will you? I'll get the bird, Jim. It's not that. It's something else, Jim. It's something else, Jim.” 30:06 · “Come here. Oh, Andy. You like dancing? Naturally. Not me, Andy. Good as friends as my. A sailor out here, they're just down to death. He really can't get up his nerve down.” 30:12 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 30:09 (passage 30:05–30:31); US record: No renewal found

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