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Shipyard

0:16–0:33 Registered 1943

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 0:200:20Frame at 0:290:29

Play from 0:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: picture changes. Sequence 2 · shots 2–3. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
shipyard (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Seen
wooden planks with text, ropes, blurred ship or dock structure
On screen
[{'text': 'Original Screen Play by EDWARD T. LOWE and MAXWELL SHANE', 'frame': 1}, {'text': 'Director of Photography FRED JACKMAN, Jr. Film Editor TED BELLINGER Supervising Editor HOWARD A. SMITH Art Direction F. PAUL SYLOS Sound Recording FRANK WEBSTER Set Decoration BEN BERK Music by MORT GLICKMAN CLASSIFIED AND PASSED BY THE NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW', 'frame': 2}]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: film credits, industrial setting; style notes: static, centered framing of text on rustic wooden planks; high-contrast black-and-white; background out of focus to emphasize credits

Two frames from the opening credits of a 1943 film show text on wooden planks listing crew roles and names, with a blurred shipyard or dock background. No people, dialogue, or actions are visible or audible in this beat.

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 0:20 (passage 0:16–0:33); US record: No renewal found

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