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Minesweeper · Beat 35 · permalink

Private office

9:12–9:35 Registered 1943

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name 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 9:169:16Frame at 9:289:28

Play from 9:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 22 · shots 76–77. 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:2
People
  • man in dark suit, medium build, seen from side visible
Seen happening
  • A close-up of a medal engraved with 'TO ENSIGN RICHARD HOUSTON' and 'JUNE 1932'. [frame:1]
  • A man in a dark suit leans over a desk in a dimly lit room. [frame:2]
Seen
engraved medal, desk lamp, desk, doorway
On screen
TO ENSIGN RICHARD HOUSTON / FROM THE UNITED STATES / NAVAL ACADEMY / JUNE 1932
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: military honor, confrontation; style notes: close-up on medal, medium shot in dim lighting, high contrast black and white

A close-up shows an engraved medal from the U.S. Naval Academy dated June 1932. A man in a dark suit is visible in a dimly lit room, leaning over a desk with a lamp.

“I'm” 9:16 · “Put your hands.” 9:33 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 9:16 (passage 9:12–9:35); US record: No renewal found

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