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Minesweeper · Beat 229 · permalink

Water

57:53–58:02 Registered 1943

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 57:5857:58

Play from 57:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 123 · shots 533–533. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
water (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • wearing a light-colored uniform and cap, standing at the stern visible
  • wearing dark clothing, seated near the center of the boat visible
  • wearing dark clothing, seated near the bow visible
Seen happening
  • A motorboat departs from a dock, leaving a wake. [frame:1]
Seen
motorboat [frame:1], dock [frame:1], wake [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, observational; themes: departure, maritime activity; style notes: black and white, medium long shot, static camera, natural lighting

A small motorboat with several people aboard is moving away from a dock on open water. The scene is shot in black and white with no visible dialogue or on-screen text.

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 57:58 (passage 57:53–58:02); US record: No renewal found

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