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Minesweeper · Beat 134 · permalink

Private office

34:00–34:20 Registered 1943

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 34:0434:04Frame at 34:1134:11Frame at 34:1634:16

Play from 34:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 77 · shots 336–338. 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, cap, standing, appears authoritative visible, audible
  • man in sailor uniform, white hat, seated, facing officer visible, audible
  • man in sailor uniform, white hat, seated, partially visible, facing officer visible, audible
Also said
“Here's a real opportunity to get some practical diving experience.” 34:07 · “You two will report to the diving launch at once to handle repairs.” 34:13
Seen
naval officer uniform, sailor uniforms with white hats, map on wall, diving helmet on table
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: authoritative and procedural; themes: military duty, naval operations, hierarchical command; style notes: studio-lit interior, medium shots, static framing, military uniforms dominate visual field

A naval officer gives orders to two sailors in an interior setting, directing them to report to a diving launch for harbor net repairs. The scene is lit with studio lighting and features military uniforms and a map on the wall.

“I see.” 34:02 · “Yes, sir, I'll send the men at once.” 34:03 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 34:04 (passage 34:00–34:20); US record: No renewal found

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