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Minesweeper · Beat 239 · permalink

Ship

59:51–1:00:26 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; 1 name 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 59:5559:55Frame at 1:00:011:00:01Frame at 1:00:151:00:15Frame at 1:00:221:00:22

Play from 59:51 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 128 · shots 545–549. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in naval officer uniform with cap and epaulets, middle-aged, medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • An airplane is visible flying over water. [frame:2]
Seen
naval officer uniform with cap and epaulets, airplane in flight, ship deck equipment
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: naval warfare, military strategy, wartime innovation; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups on the officer, wide shot of plane over water, high-contrast lighting

A man in a naval uniform is shown on a ship's deck, speaking about an idea to explode something. An airplane is seen flying over water in a separate shot.

“I'm going to find me to my start right. Yeah. Me an idea. I think I've got the answer way to explode them all. That come up now.” 60:00 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 59:55 (passage 59:51–1:00:26); US record: No renewal found

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