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Minesweeper · Beat 241 · permalink

Ship

1:00:45–1:00:56 Registered 1943

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:00:471:00:47Frame at 1:00:521:00:52

Play from 1:00:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 128 · shots 554–555. 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 uniform with cap and shoulder boards, mid-adult, medium build visible
  • person in dark clothing, partially visible, bent over on deck visible
  • Nash (named at t:60:48): unseen audible
  • Bobby (named at t:60:48): unseen audible
Seen happening
  • A man in uniform stands on a ship deck. [frame:1]
  • A man in uniform looks down at something in his hands. [frame:2]
Seen
naval uniform, ship deck railing, rope or cable on deck
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: military duty, command hierarchy, naval operations; style notes: high-contrast black and white, medium close-up on officer, wide shot of deck, natural lighting

A man in uniform is shown on a ship deck, with another person visible in the background; the transcript includes dialogue about someone named Nash and Bobby.

“Go ahead Nash. Bobby's caught me consecutively so I can get the whole picture.” 60:48 · “And take it easy.” 60:55 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 1:00:47 (passage 1:00:45–1:00:56); US record: No renewal found

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