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Minesweeper · Beat 19 · permalink

Vehicle interior

4:03–4:20 Registered 1943

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 4:074:07Frame at 4:164:16

Play from 4:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 13 · shots 33–34. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Jim Smith (named at t:4:07): man driving, visible from chest up, wearing dark shirt, light-skinned, mid-adult visible
  • Jim Smith (named at t:4:07): man in passenger seat, visible from chest up, wearing dark shirt, light-skinned, mid-adult visible
Seen happening
  • Two men are seated in a vehicle, one driving, one passenger. [frame:1]
  • The passenger looks toward the driver while speaking. [frame:2]
Also said
“No kidding. Same as mine?” 4:07 · “I used to have a cousin by the name of Jim Smith.” 4:07
Seen
vehicle [frame:1], text on vehicle [frame:1]
On screen
J. SMITH
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual, conversational; themes: identity, coincidence, travel; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up from behind vehicle, static framing, high contrast lighting

Two men are in a vehicle; one is driving and the other is in the passenger seat. The transcript reveals they are discussing names, with both men sharing the name Jim Smith.

“Couple of hobos running down our country. It's a fine howdy-you-do.” 4:07 · “Mate Jake told me your name. Smith. It's plain Jim Smith.” 4:07 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 4:07 (passage 4:03–4:20); US record: No renewal found

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