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Minesweeper · Beat 135 · permalink

Ship

34:20–34:36 Registered 1943

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 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 34:2834:28

Play from 34:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 78 · shots 339–339. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • sailor in white hat and dark uniform, holding megaphone to mouth visible
  • sailor in white hat and dark uniform, standing on gangplank with a box visible
  • sailor in white hat, partially visible on left visible
Seen
megaphone [frame:1], gangplank [frame:1], box [frame:1], sailor uniforms [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, procedural; themes: naval operations, military discipline; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, medium shot, static camera, focused on group activity

A group of sailors in white hats and dark uniforms are on a gangplank leading to a ship; one is using a megaphone. The scene is outdoors on water, with no visible land or sky details.

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 34:28 (passage 34:20–34:36); US record: No renewal found

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