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Minesweeper · Beat 217 · permalink

Naval base interior

54:25–54:49 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 54:2854:28Frame at 54:3354:33Frame at 54:4254:42

Play from 54:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 117 · shots 503–505. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
naval_base_interior (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in sailor uniform, white hat, dark coat, medium build visible, audible
  • civilian man, balding, wearing vest and light shirt, seated at counter visible
Seen happening
  • A sailor stands at a counter facing a civilian man. [frame:1]
  • The sailor leans against a wall near a wall-mounted device. [frame:2]
  • The civilian man opens a box while the sailor watches. [frame:3]
Also said
“Hey, you want this stuff or don't you?” 54:46 · “*Bell rings*” 54:49
Seen
box, counter, wall-mounted device, sailor uniform, bell
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: military discipline, disruption of civilian routine, communication under pressure; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, static framing, high contrast lighting

A sailor in uniform speaks to a civilian man at a counter while an announcement cancels leave for the San Pedro section. A bell rings as the civilian handles a box.

“All leave and ensure liberty canceled for men attached to the San Pedro section.” 54:30 · “Attention, attention. All leave and shore liberty canceled for men attached to the San Pedro section.” 54:37 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 54:28 (passage 54:25–54:49); US record: No renewal found

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