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Minesweeper · Beat 137 · permalink

Ship

34:54–35:17 Registered 1943

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 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 34:5734:57Frame at 35:0335:03Frame at 35:0735:07Frame at 35:1335:13

Play from 34:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 78 · shots 343–346. 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
  • man in uniform, standing at stern of boat visible
  • man in uniform, seated near center of boat visible
  • man in uniform, standing near bow visible
  • man in uniform, seated near stern visible
Seen
motorboat [frame:2], uniforms [frame:4], oars or poles [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: naval operations, crew coordination, open sea; style notes: black-and-white, medium to long shots, natural lighting, documentary-style framing

A small motorboat with several crew members is shown moving across open water. The crew is visible on deck, with one man standing at the stern and others seated or standing near equipment.

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 34:57 (passage 34:54–35:17); US record: No renewal found

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