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Minesweeper · Beat 269 · permalink

Harbor

1:05:23–1:05:43 Registered 1943

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:05:251:05:25Frame at 1:05:301:05:30Frame at 1:05:371:05:37Frame at 1:05:421:05:42

Play from 1:05:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends. Sequence 149 · shots 601–607. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
harbor (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman with curly hair, wearing a light-colored dress visible
  • man in a dark sailor uniform with a white hat visible
Seen happening
  • A woman and a man in a sailor uniform stand side by side on a pier, looking out at the water. [frame:1]
  • The film displays a title card reading 'The END'. [frame:3]
Seen
sailor uniform [frame:1], pier railing [frame:1], ships in harbor [frame:1], title card 'The END' [frame:3]
On screen
The END
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: resolute; themes: farewell, naval service, closure; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast black and white, wide framing to include background harbor, ends with centered title card

A man in a sailor uniform and a woman stand on a pier, looking out at a harbor with ships. The film ends with a title card reading 'The END'.

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 1:05:25 (passage 1:05:23–1:05:43); US record: No renewal found

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