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Minesweeper · Beat 191 · permalink

Kitchen

47:32–48:58 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; 3 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 47:3647:36Frame at 47:4647:46Frame at 48:3448:34Frame at 48:5448:54

Play from 47:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 102 · shots 450–454. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
kitchen (kitchen, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, mid-30s, wearing white shirt and dark tie, seated at table visible, audible
  • woman, 50s-60s, wearing patterned dress with white collar, standing visible, audible
  • Jim Smith (named at t:48:43): man, 30s, wearing military uniform with sergeant stripes, standing visible, audible
  • man, 40s, wearing military uniform, standing visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man sits at a table while a woman stands beside him, holding a teapot. [frame:1]
  • The woman leans over the man, speaking to him closely. [frame:2]
  • The man in the white shirt speaks animatedly to a woman in the background. [frame:3]
  • Two men in military uniforms face each other in an office. [frame:4]
Also said
“Thank you for your pardon sir, but I came to tell you about Jim Smith.” 48:43 · “Running a fever. The doc said it might be dangerous for him to get up now.” 48:52
Seen
teapot, table with newspaper, military uniform with sergeant stripes, map on wall
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and concerned; themes: duty and friendship, domestic life during wartime, military protocol vs. personal loyalty; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, domestic and institutional settings

A man speaks with his mother at home, then reports to a military office about a missing comrade. The mother mentions curtains and expresses concern, while the man insists on covering for his friend who is ill.

“Mom, if I could ever find a girl that could cook like you...” 47:36 · “Something must have happened to her.” 48:03 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 47:36 (passage 47:32–48:58); US record: No renewal found

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