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Minesweeper · Beat 184 · permalink

Shop

45:28–45:53 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; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 45:3645:36Frame at 45:4945:49

Play from 45:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 97 · shots 440–441. 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 a suit, middle-aged, wearing a tie and pocket square, holding a ring visible, audible
  • sailor, wearing a white hat and dark uniform, facing p1 visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit holds a ring and speaks to a sailor. [frame:1]
  • The man in the suit continues to hold the ring while talking. [frame:2]
Also said
“It's ten bucks on the parlor.” 45:40 · “Just hang on to that ring, the name is Smith.” 45:50
Seen
ring, ring, display shelves with watches and clocks, display shelves with watches and clocks
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense negotiation; themes: commerce, identity, negotiation; style notes: medium two-shot, high-contrast lighting, static framing, period costume

A sailor and a man in a suit discuss buying a ring in a shop; the man in the suit holds a ring and mentions the name Smith. The sailor is present and engaged in the conversation.

“Why don't you buy her one like Gordon? That's a nice ring, too. No, no. This has got to be the real thing.” 45:30 · “Tell you what you do. Hold that for Gordon and put this one away for me. All right.” 45:37 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 45:36 (passage 45:28–45:53); US record: No renewal found

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