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Minesweeper · Beat 26 · permalink

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6:28–6:36 Registered 1943

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 6:326:32

Play from 6:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 16 · shots 61–61. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
Seen
Western Union telegram form
On screen
WESTERN UNION RECORDERS OFFICE COURTHOUSE BUCKEYE ARKANSAS RUSH AIRMAIL GENERAL DELIVERY SAN PEDRO CALIFORNIA BIRTH CERTIFICATE R JAMES SMITH BORN BUCKEYE ARK 9.09. FEE ACCOMPANIES TELEGRAM JAMES SMITH
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: bureaucracy, communication, official documentation; style notes: static close-up, high contrast black-and-white, documentary-style focus on text

A close-up of a Western Union telegram form is shown, filled out with handwritten details including names and addresses. No people are visible or audible in this beat.

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 6:32 (passage 6:28–6:36); US record: No renewal found

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