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Minesweeper · Beat 151 · permalink

Vehicle interior

37:53–38:12 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; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 37:5637:56Frame at 38:0338:03Frame at 38:0938:09

Play from 37:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 84 · shots 375–377. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, exterior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • silhouette of a man in dark clothing, visible from waist up, bent over near the edge of a boat visible
  • silhouette of a man standing upright in dark clothing, visible from waist up, near the center of the boat visible
  • silhouette of a man in dark clothing, visible from waist up, crouched or bent over near the stern of the boat visible
Seen happening
  • men are visible on a small boat at water level [frame:3]
Seen
small boat [frame:3], water [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and obscure; themes: naval activity, obscurity, teamwork; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, silhouetted figures, tight framing on water level

A dark, indistinct scene transitions to a group of men on a small boat at water level, with one man bent over near the edge. No dialogue or on-screen text is present.

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 37:56 (passage 37:53–38:12); US record: No renewal found

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