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Minesweeper · Beat 259 · permalink

Ship

1:03:33–1:03:44 Registered 1943

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 6 names 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 1:03:381:03:38Frame at 1:03:431:03:43

Play from 1:03:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 141 · shots 580–581. 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, frame:2
People
  • sailor in white hat and light shirt, seated on left visible
  • sailor in white hat and dark shirt, standing behind seated man visible
  • man in dark uniform with cap, seated in center, wearing life vest visible
  • officer in dark uniform with cap, standing center-right visible
  • officer in light uniform with cap, standing far right visible
  • sailor in white hat, bending over near seated man in frame 2 visible
Seen happening
  • A sailor bends over near the seated man. [frame:2]
Also said
“The base and the radio at once.” 63:38
Seen
ship deck [frame:1], life vest [frame:1], naval uniforms and caps [frame:1], ocean background [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: naval duty, emergency response, hierarchy; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white, static framing, natural daylight

On a ship deck, sailors and officers are present as one man is seated and others stand or bend near him; orders are given to pull up a line and contact the base. The sea is visible behind them, and the scene is lit by bright daylight.

“Pull up the line, sir.” 63:34 · “Pull him up.” 63:36 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 1:03:38 (passage 1:03:33–1:03:44); US record: No renewal found

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