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Minesweeper · Beat 176 · permalink

Private office

41:32–41:51 Registered 1943

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: name not grounded. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names 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 41:4141:41Frame at 41:5041:50

Play from 41:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 93 · shots 421–422. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in military-style uniform, seated, mid-adult visible, audible
  • RICHARD HOUSTON (named at frame:2): man in dark uniform, portrait photo visible
Seen happening
  • A man in uniform is seated at a desk holding a telephone receiver to his ear. [frame:1]
  • A newspaper clipping shows a portrait labeled 'RICHARD HOUSTON'. [frame:2]
Seen
telephone receiver, desk, bookshelf, newspaper clipping, portrait photo
On screen
RICHARD HOUSTON
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious; themes: military, communication, media representation; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up, studio lighting, static framing

A man in uniform is seated at a desk in an office, speaking into a telephone. A newspaper clipping with a portrait and the name 'RICHARD HOUSTON' is shown.

“I'm.” 41:34 · “I'm.” 41:45 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 41:41 (passage 41:32–41:51); US record: No renewal found

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