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Minesweeper · Beat 139 · permalink

Ship

35:35–35:56 Registered 1943

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 35:3835:38Frame at 35:4235:42Frame at 35:4735:47Frame at 35:5335:53

Play from 35:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 79 · shots 350–353. 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 uniform, wearing a white cap, standing with arms crossed visible
  • sailor in uniform, assisting another with a life vest visible
  • sailor in uniform, receiving assistance with a life vest visible
  • sailor in uniform, seen from behind, adjusting headgear visible
Seen happening
  • A sailor is being helped with a life vest by another sailor. [frame:2]
  • Sailors stand on deck, some holding rifles. [frame:3]
  • A sailor adjusts his headgear while facing away from the camera. [frame:4]
Seen
life vest [frame:2], sailor uniforms [frame:1], rifles [frame:3], white sailor caps [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and focused; themes: naval duty, preparation, camaraderie; style notes: high-contrast black and white cinematography, medium shots emphasizing group dynamics, tight framing on hands and gear

A group of sailors in uniform are gathered on a ship's deck; one is being assisted with a life vest while others stand nearby. The scene is shot in black and white with high-contrast lighting, focusing on the interaction among the crew.

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 35:38 (passage 35:35–35:56); US record: No renewal found

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