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Minesweeper · Beat 244 · permalink

Ship

1:01:18–1:01:51 Registered 1943

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

Frame at 1:01:231:01:23Frame at 1:01:301:01:30Frame at 1:01:431:01:43Frame at 1:01:481:01:48

Play from 1:01:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 131 · shots 558–562. 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
  • Nash (named at t:61:32): man in officer's cap and jacket, mid-30s, average build visible, audible
  • man in sailor's cap and shirt, mid-30s, average build visible
Seen happening
  • Two men in naval uniforms are on a ship's deck, one operating equipment while the other observes. [frame:1]
  • The officer continues to operate the equipment while the sailor looks on. [frame:2]
  • The officer is alone, focused on the equipment. [frame:3]
  • Both men are back together; the officer speaks urgently while the sailor listens. [frame:4]
Also said
“What's the matter, Nash?” 61:32 · “That's a. That's a. That's a. Right away. I go ahead. Take me to that down and bring” 61:34
Seen
naval uniforms [frame:1], ship's deck equipment [frame:1], ocean background [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: naval duty, communication under pressure, teamwork; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white, focused on character interaction and equipment

Two men in naval uniforms are on a ship's deck, one operating equipment while the other observes. One man is later seen alone, focused on the equipment, before both reappear together as one speaks urgently.

“After that.” 61:22 · “- They're getting up in one. - What's the matter? I don't know. I think his lines are found.” 61:23 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 1:01:23 (passage 1:01:18–1:01:51); US record: No renewal found

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