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Minesweeper · Beat 23 · permalink

Vehicle interior

5:56–6:18 Registered 1943

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 3 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 5:585:58Frame at 6:096:09Frame at 6:116:11Frame at 6:166:16

Play from 5:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 13 · shots 53–58. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in uniform, visible in driver's seat visible
  • man in dark jacket, visible in passenger seat visible
  • Lieutenant Richard Houston (named at frame:4): man in naval officer uniform, photo in newspaper visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark jacket sits in the passenger seat of a vehicle. [frame:2]
  • Two men are visible inside a vehicle, with 'P. SMITH' written on the windshield. [frame:3]
  • A newspaper headline reads 'Naval Officer Missing' and identifies the officer as Lieutenant Richard Houston. [frame:4]
Seen
vehicle, newspaper, windshield text
On screen
{'value': 'SMITH, P. SMITH, Naval Officer Missing, Lieutenant Richard Houston Sought by Naval Authorities', 'evidence': 'frame:4'}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: military duty, missing person, naval authority; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups inside vehicle, static framing, high contrast lighting

A man in uniform drives a vehicle while another man sits beside him; a newspaper headline reports a naval officer missing. The vehicle's windshield displays the name 'SMITH' and 'P. SMITH'.

“Sure, I will.” 6:13 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 5:58 (passage 5:56–6:18); US record: No renewal found

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