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Minesweeper · Beat 130 · permalink

Private office

32:25–32:36 Registered 1943

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 32:2832:28Frame at 32:3132:31Frame at 32:3432:34Frame at 32:3532:35

Play from 32:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 76 · shots 312–316. 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
  • Elliot (named at t:32:31): man in dark suit, side profile visible in frame 1, mostly in shadow in later frames visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man stands near a patterned window in a dark room. [frame:1]
Seen
patterned window grille
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, confrontational; themes: romantic conflict, unexpected arrival, accusation; style notes: high-contrast lighting, deep shadows, tight framing on character, noir aesthetic

A man is visible in a dim interior, speaking about someone being set to marry Elliot. The scene remains dark across multiple frames, with minimal visible detail.

“Oh, no, no, no.” 32:28 · “Until I popped out of nowhere, you were all set to marry Elliot, weren't you?” 32:31 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 32:28 (passage 32:25–32:36); US record: No renewal found

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