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Minesweeper · Beat 127 · permalink

Private office

31:33–31:54 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; 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 31:3331:33Frame at 31:3731:37Frame at 31:4431:44Frame at 31:5231:52

Play from 31:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 76 · shots 297–306. 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 dark clothing, visible in profile, medium build visible
  • Jim (named at t:31:35): man in dark clothing, visible in partial profile, medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man is seen in silhouette in a dark room. [frame:1]
  • A second man turns his head toward the first. [frame:2]
  • The two men face each other in conversation. [frame:3]
  • One man looks down while speaking. [frame:4]
Also said
“I never heard of her.” 31:44 · “Isn't it how beautiful?” 31:53
Seen
vertical bars or window frames [frame:1], dark clothing [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and shadowy; themes: denial, mystery, interpersonal tension; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, tight framing on faces, minimal visible background

A dimly lit interior scene shows two figures in conversation, one of whom is addressed as Jim. The dialogue includes denials and references to someone named Angie, with one speaker commenting on beauty.

“Jim.” 31:35 · “- Angie. - Angie?” 31:41 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 31:33 (passage 31:33–31:54); US record: No renewal found

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