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Minesweeper · Beat 169 · permalink

Private office

40:31–40:56 Registered 1943

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 40:4040:40Frame at 40:5340:53

Play from 40:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 87 · shots 412–413. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Gelford (named at t:40:32): man in military uniform, standing, medium build, dark hair visible, audible
  • Smith (named at t:40:48): man in light shirt, seated at desk, medium build, dark hair, later holding a hat and paper roll visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Gelford stands in front of Smith’s desk in an office. [frame:1]
  • Smith holds a hat and a roll of paper, looking down. [frame:2]
Also said
“Here you are close, Smith.” 40:48 · “Greg brought them in from the lodge for you.” 40:49
Seen
desk [frame:1], map on wall [frame:1], flag [frame:1], hat [frame:2], roll of paper [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious and formal; themes: military protocol, recovery after incident, personal care in institutional setting; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal framing with characters positioned across a desk

A man in uniform speaks with another man seated at a desk in an office; the seated man is later shown holding a hat and a roll of paper. The dialogue references a decompressant and someone named Smith.

“Mr. Gelford?” 40:32 · “Doc said you want to see me.” 40:33 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 40:40 (passage 40:31–40:56); US record: No renewal found

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