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Minesweeper · Beat 182 · permalink

Shop

44:55–45:03 Registered 1943

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 44:5944:59

Play from 44:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 97 · shots 436–436. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
shop (shop, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in suit, mid-adult, average build visible, audible
  • Debbie Gordon (named at t:44:57): woman wearing a light-colored hat, partially obscured visible
Also said
“I'll put it in a nice little box for you.” 45:01
Seen
clocks [frame:1], trophies [frame:1], hat [frame:1], suit [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, transactional; themes: commerce, customer service, item retrieval; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, static framing, black-and-white

A man in a suit speaks to a woman in a hat inside a shop filled with clocks and trophies. He mentions putting an item in a box for her after referencing a balance of $75.

“There it is.” 44:55 · “Debbie Gordon, balance $75. That's the one. All right.” 44:57 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 44:59 (passage 44:55–45:03); US record: No renewal found

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