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Minesweeper · Beat 219 · permalink

Private office

55:25–55:46 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; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 55:2755:27Frame at 55:3455:34Frame at 55:4255:42

Play from 55:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 117 · shots 510–512. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in naval officer uniform, cap, standing visible
  • man in naval officer uniform, cap, standing visible
  • man in dark uniform with shoulder insignia, standing visible
  • man in light-colored uniform, seated at desk visible
Seen happening
  • Two naval officers stand facing each other in an office. [frame:1]
  • A man in uniform stands beside a desk while another sits at it. [frame:2]
  • The standing man continues to address the seated man. [frame:3]
Also said
“Little late, aren't you?” 55:34 · “The minute I heard the alert over the radio, I reported immediately.” 55:41
Seen
naval officer uniforms [frame:1], desk with papers and small objects [frame:2], American flag [frame:2], large wall map [frame:2], office chair [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, tense; themes: military duty, reporting for service, authority and accountability; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black and white, studio lighting, period military uniforms

Two men in naval uniforms speak in an office; one reports for duty late, citing illness. A map and American flag are visible in the background.

“We don't know yet. Hold the men in readiness.” 55:28 · “Reporting for duty, sir.” 55:33 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 55:27 (passage 55:25–55:46); US record: No renewal found

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