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Minesweeper · Beat 262 · permalink

Field

1:04:03–1:04:33 Registered 1943

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 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 1:04:081:04:08Frame at 1:04:161:04:16Frame at 1:04:241:04:24Frame at 1:04:311:04:31

Play from 1:04:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 142 · shots 586–589. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:4
People
  • man in dark diving suit with metal helmet, seated visible
  • Jim Smith (named at t:64:14): man in light-colored military uniform with cap, standing right visible, audible
  • man in dark military uniform, standing behind p1, assisting with gear visible
  • man in light-colored uniform with cap, standing left, assisting with gear visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a diving suit is being assisted by two uniformed men. [frame:1]
  • The man in the diving suit looks forward while being adjusted. [frame:2]
  • A man in a light uniform stands and speaks while others assist the diver. [frame:3]
  • The man in the light uniform gestures while speaking. [frame:4]
Also said
“Jim Smith would save you through and through.” 64:14 · “I'm not sure.” 64:25
Seen
diving suit with metal helmet [frame:1], military uniforms [frame:1], military caps [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and procedural; themes: military duty, preparation for dangerous task, trust in comrades; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white, studio lighting on outdoor set, focused on character interaction and gear

A man in a diving suit is assisted by several uniformed personnel in an outdoor setting. One man in a light uniform speaks while others observe or assist with the gear.

“You know the day.” 64:11 · “That's why he sent me up.” 64:12 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 1:04:08 (passage 1:04:03–1:04:33); US record: No renewal found

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