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Minesweeper · Beat 180 · permalink

Ship

43:11–43:35 Registered 1943

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 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 43:1643:16Frame at 43:2743:27

Play from 43:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 96 · shots 426–427. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Jim (named at t:43:25): sailor in dark uniform and white hat, medium build, appears mid-30s visible, audible
  • Savvy (named at t:43:22): sailor in dark uniform and white hat, medium build, appears mid-30s visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Sailor p1 hands money to sailor p2. [frame:1]
  • Sailor p2 holds money while speaking to p1. [frame:2]
Seen
sailor uniforms [frame:1], money (bills or coins) [frame:1], locker or cabinet [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual and slightly humorous; themes: naval camaraderie, gift-giving, everyday shipboard life; style notes: medium two-shot, studio lighting, static framing, black-and-white film

Two sailors in uniform exchange money in a ship's interior. One sailor gives five dollars to another to buy red roses for someone named Margie.

“Hey, Savvy. Yeah.” 43:22 · “No flowers for Margie? Gosh, I never even thought of that, Jim. Yeah, yeah. Here's five dollars. Get Margie one of them great big bucks of them red roses.” 43:25 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 43:16 (passage 43:11–43:35); US record: No renewal found

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