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Minesweeper · Beat 260 · permalink

Ship

1:03:44–1:04:00 Registered 1943

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

Frame at 1:03:461:03:46Frame at 1:03:531:03:53Frame at 1:03:591:03:59

Play from 1:03:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 141 · shots 582–584. 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 and cap, speaking into a device, visible in frame:1 visible, audible
  • Gilpin (named at t:63:57): older man in naval uniform and cap, standing in interior, visible in frame:2 and frame:3 visible
  • man in naval uniform and cap, standing in interior, visible in frame:2 and frame:3 visible
  • man in naval uniform and cap, standing in interior, visible in frame:2 and frame:3 visible
Seen happening
  • A naval officer reports his location over a device. [frame:1]
  • The officers in the command room acknowledge the plan. [frame:3]
Also said
“Good work, Gilpin.” 63:57 · “All right.” 63:59
Seen
naval uniform, cap, communication device, naval uniforms and caps, desk or console, naval uniforms and caps, desk or console
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and procedural; themes: military command, wartime strategy, naval operations; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, studio lighting, military uniforms dominate framing

A naval officer reports his location and suggests a tactic to surface mines using low-flying planes and rifle fire; another officer praises him as 'Gilpin'. The scene shifts from an exterior ship deck to an interior command room with multiple officers.

“I'm located, sir.” 63:47 · “By the action, I would suggest trying to bring the rest of them to the surface by flying planes low over the water, and we can detonate them by rifle fire.” 63:49 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 1:03:46 (passage 1:03:44–1:04:00); US record: No renewal found

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