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Minesweeper · Beat 163 · permalink

Ship

39:48–39:59 Registered 1943

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 39:5239:52Frame at 39:5739:57

Play from 39:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 84 · shots 400–401. 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, cap, seated, appears middle-aged visible
Seen happening
  • A man in naval uniform sits on a vessel with a Red Cross sign visible. [frame:1]
  • A dark scene with scattered distant lights is shown. [frame:2]
Seen
Red Cross sign, naval uniform, cap
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: war, naval service, imminent decision; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up on character, high contrast lighting, abrupt cut to dark scene

A man in a naval uniform is visible on a vessel at sea during daylight; a second frame shows a dark, indistinct scene with distant lights. A voice says someone cannot last much longer and that they are going with that.

“Thanks. How's it coming. He can't last much longer. I'm going with that.” 39:49 automatic transcript, may be wrong

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 39:52 (passage 39:48–39:59); US record: No renewal found

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