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Minesweeper · Beat 141 · permalink

Ship

36:12–36:29 Registered 1943

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 6 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 36:1736:17Frame at 36:2536:25

Play from 36:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 79 · shots 356–357. 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 naval uniform, short hair, average build visible
  • man in naval uniform, cap, assisting with diving suit visible
  • man in naval uniform, standing behind diver visible
  • man in naval uniform, holding helmet visible
  • diver in heavy suit and helmet, seated visible
  • diver in heavy suit and helmet, being handled by crew visible
Seen
diving suit [frame:1], diving helmet [frame:2], naval uniforms [frame:1], ship deck [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, procedural; themes: naval duty, teamwork, preparation for underwater operation; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast lighting, static camera, focused on group action

A group of men in naval uniforms assist two individuals in heavy diving suits on a ship deck. The scene shows physical handling of equipment and personnel, with no dialogue or on-screen text visible.

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 36:17 (passage 36:12–36:29); US record: No renewal found

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