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Minesweeper · Beat 214 · permalink

Living room

53:45–54:14 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; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 53:5453:54Frame at 54:0854:08

Play from 53:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 114 · shots 499–500. 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 with wavy hair, wearing a dark jacket with light collar visible, audible
  • Dick Houston (named at t:53:54): man with dark hair, wearing dark uniform-style top visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man and woman stand facing each other in a room. [frame:1]
  • The man looks down while the woman watches him. [frame:2]
Also said
“Dick Houston walked out years ago.” 53:54 · “There isn't a place for either one of them in a decent society. Or in the Navy.” 54:00
Seen
wooden chair with carved back, curtained window, bookshelf
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confessional; themes: identity, moral consequence, naval service; style notes: medium close-up, high-contrast lighting, static framing, period costume

A man and a woman stand in a dimly lit room; the man speaks about past identities and their exclusion from society and the Navy. The woman listens as he looks down, appearing distressed.

“I lost my friend's life for it.” 53:46 · “Oh, forget about me, Mary.” 53:51 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 53:54 (passage 53:45–54:14); US record: No renewal found

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