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Minesweeper · Beat 266 · permalink

Sea

1:04:43–1:04:57 Registered 1943

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:04:451:04:45Frame at 1:04:481:04:48Frame at 1:04:511:04:51Frame at 1:04:551:04:55

Play from 1:04:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 146 · shots 593–596. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sea (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:4
Seen happening
  • Ripples are visible on the surface of a body of water. [frame:1]
  • A large plume of water erupts from the sea, suggesting an explosion. [frame:2]
  • A military aircraft is seen flying against a bright sky. [frame:3]
  • A small dark object is visible on the rippling water surface. [frame:4]
Seen
water surface [frame:1, frame:4], explosion plume [frame:2], military aircraft [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: naval warfare, explosive impact, aerial presence; style notes: high-contrast black and white, wide shots emphasizing scale and isolation, abrupt cuts between water, explosion, and aircraft

A sequence of four frames shows a body of water with ripples, followed by a large water plume from an explosion, then a military aircraft in flight, and finally the water surface again with a small object visible. No people, dialogue, or on-screen text are present in these frames.

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 1:04:45 (passage 1:04:43–1:04:57); US record: No renewal found

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