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Minesweeper · Beat 186 · permalink

Living room

46:29–47:09 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 46:3346:33Frame at 46:4546:45Frame at 47:0147:01

Play from 46:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 98 · shots 443–445. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman in a light-colored dress and apron, mid-20s to 30s, average build visible, audible
  • man in a white shirt and tie, holding a document, 30s-40s, average build visible
  • woman seated in a dark dress, 30s-40s, average build visible
  • man in a sailor uniform with a white hat, smoking a cigarette, 30s, average build visible
Seen happening
  • A sailor is seen smoking a cigarette. [frame:3]
Also said
“What on earth could have happened to him? Well, maybe he met up with some of his old friends or something.” 46:44 · “Hey, Mom, how's about putting on the chow? I'm so hungry I could eat an anchor change. Let's wait a little longer.” 46:50
Seen
telephone, document, cigarette, sailor hat, lamp, staircase
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: anxious and domestic; themes: domestic concern, wartime absence, miscommunication; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, studio lighting, staged interior

A woman answers a phone call, receives a wrong-number message, and expresses concern about a missing person while a sailor smokes nearby. A man in the background reads a document as another woman sits in a chair.

“Hello?” 46:33 · “No, I'm sorry. You have the wrong number.” 46:36 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 46:33 (passage 46:29–47:09); US record: No renewal found

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