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Minesweeper · Beat 255 · permalink

Ship

1:03:01–1:03:19 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; 1 name 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 1:03:041:03:04Frame at 1:03:081:03:08Frame at 1:03:131:03:13Frame at 1:03:171:03:17

Play from 1:03:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 139 · shots 573–576. 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
  • Smith (named at t:63:13): man in naval officer uniform with cap, epaulets, and tie; middle-aged, medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in uniform inspects a device with his hands. [frame:1]
  • A hand manipulates a dark, curved object with a tool. [frame:2]
  • The man in uniform looks down at the device with a focused expression. [frame:3]
  • The man in uniform looks up with a concerned expression. [frame:4]
Seen
naval officer uniform, cap with insignia, diaphragm device, tool, ocean background
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: military procedure, danger, caution; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, medium close-up framing, studio lighting on outdoor set

A man in a naval uniform examines a device near water while being warned not to touch it due to a potential booby trap. The scene is shot outdoors with a dark, indistinct background and studio lighting.

“Gasket on the rain. I have been held by steel ring.” 63:04 · “Diaphragm held by steel ring. That's enough, Smith. The booby trap could be right behind the diaphragm. Don't touch it.” 63:13 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 1:03:04 (passage 1:03:01–1:03:19); US record: No renewal found

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