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Minesweeper · Beat 164 · permalink

Ship

39:59–40:22 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 40:0240:02Frame at 40:0940:09Frame at 40:1140:11Frame at 40:1740:17

Play from 39:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 84 · shots 402–407. 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 and cap, seated on a small boat with a red cross symbol visible
  • silhouetted figures on a larger vessel, one in uniform visible
Seen happening
  • A sailor is seated on a small boat with a red cross symbol, looking out over the water. [frame:1]
  • Several figures are visible on a larger vessel, one of whom appears to be in uniform. [frame:2]
  • The scene is dark, with distant lights visible, suggesting nighttime or low visibility. [frame:3]
  • The sailor on the small boat is again visible, now leaning forward slightly. [frame:4]
Seen
small boat with red cross symbol [frame:1], larger vessel [frame:2], sailor's uniform and cap [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and focused; themes: naval operations, rescue, wartime duty; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, medium and long shots emphasizing isolation and scale

A sailor is visible on a small boat at sea, with a red cross symbol on the side, while other figures are seen on a larger vessel nearby. The transcript contains repeated affirmations and an instruction to pull someone up, suggesting a rescue or recovery operation.

“Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Pull him up there.” 40:00 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 40:02 (passage 39:59–40:22); US record: No renewal found

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