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Minesweeper · Beat 32 · permalink

Private office

8:47–9:03 Registered 1943

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

Frame at 8:498:49Frame at 8:578:57

Play from 8:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 19 · shots 72–73. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, mid-adult, dark hair, wearing a dark suit and tie visible
Seen happening
  • man looks at a framed portrait on a desk [frame:1]
  • man turns away from the desk toward a doorway [frame:2]
Also said
“Oh, my God.” 8:56
Seen
framed portrait, desk lamp, desk, doorway
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: shock, personal crisis; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, medium close-up and medium shots, static camera

A man in a dark room reacts with alarm, looking at a framed portrait and then turning toward a doorway. The transcript shows him repeating 'Oh, my God' during this interval.

“Oh, my God.” 8:50 · “Oh, my God.” 8:51 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 8:49 (passage 8:47–9:03); US record: No renewal found

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