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Minesweeper · Beat 268 · permalink

Ship

1:05:02–1:05:23 Registered 1943

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: quote not verbatim. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:05:021:05:02Frame at 1:05:101:05:10Frame at 1:05:211:05:21

Play from 1:05:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 148 · shots 598–600. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(ship, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • naval officer in uniform, visible from chest up, standing on ship deck visible
  • naval officer in uniform, partially visible behind p1, holding binoculars visible
Seen happening
  • A naval officer stands on a ship's deck with another officer behind him. [frame:1]
  • A document is displayed awarding a posthumous Navy and Marine Corps Medal to James Smith. [frame:2]
  • The document remains on screen, identifying James Smith as Gunner's Mate First Class, United States Naval Reserve. [frame:3]
Also said
“JAMES SMITH, GUNNER'S MATE FIRST CLASS UNITED STATES NAVAL RESERVE” 65:02 · “for service as set forth in the” 65:02
Seen
American flag [frame:1], binoculars [frame:1], ship mast and rigging [frame:1], official document [frame:2]
On screen
THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY WASHINGTON The President of the United States presents posthumously the NAVY AND MARINE CORPS MEDAL to JAMES SMITH, GUNNER'S MATE FIRST CLASS UNITED STATES NAVAL RESERVE for service as set forth in the
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn; themes: military honor, posthumous recognition, naval service; style notes: black-and-white, formal framing of document, medium shot of officers on deck, high contrast lighting

A naval officer is seen on a ship's deck while a document is displayed awarding a posthumous Navy and Marine Corps Medal to James Smith. The document is issued by the Secretary of the Navy and references service in the United States Naval Reserve.

“Ah!” 65:02 · “The President of the United States presents posthumously the NAVY AND MARINE CORPS MEDAL to” 65:02 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 1:05:02 (passage 1:05:02–1:05:23); US record: No renewal found

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