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Minesweeper · Beat 131 · permalink

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32:36–32:54 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; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 32:3632:36Frame at 32:4232:42Frame at 32:4832:48Frame at 32:5432:54

Play from 32:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 76 · shots 317–328. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • James (named at t:32:37): silhouetted figure, possibly male, wearing dark clothing, visible only in profile or partial face visible, audible
  • Jim Smith (named at t:32:47): silhouetted figure, possibly female, facing p1, partially visible in frame:4 visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two silhouetted figures stand facing each other in a dark room. [frame:1]
  • The figures remain in place, with minimal movement. [frame:2]
Also said
“Do you suppose a person could change, that is, if they were different?” 32:42 · “What I mean is... Jim Smith? Why didn't you tell me you wanted to dance with me? I'd be to excuse that. After all, the morality of our horses... Boy, I see all the crystals in Gendon. Sure it is.” 32:47
Seen
silhouettes [frame:1], dark interior [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, confused, intimate; themes: identity, miscommunication, emotional ambiguity; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, silhouetted figures, tight framing, minimal visible detail

Two people are in a dimly lit interior, speaking in a tense exchange. One person asks if a person can change, and the other responds with a confused, fragmented statement about dancing and horses.

“I don't know, James.” 32:37 · “I know what I'd like to say.” 32:41 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 32:36 (passage 32:36–32:54); US record: No renewal found

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