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Minesweeper · Beat 37 · permalink

Private office

9:37–10:05 Registered 1943

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 9:389:38Frame at 9:459:45Frame at 9:569:56Frame at 10:0410:04

Play from 9:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 79–86. 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
  • Mary Smith (named at t:9:56): woman, dark hair styled in waves, wearing a dark coat, holding a pistol visible, audible
  • Harry Smith (named at t:9:48): man, short dark hair, wearing a light shirt and tie, holding a small object visible, audible
Also said
“Mary Smith.” 9:56 · “Incidentally that picture doesn't flatter you.” 10:01
Seen
pistol, portrait on wall, wall sconce
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and intimate; themes: identity, confrontation, romantic tension; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static framing

A woman holding a gun confronts a man in a room; they exchange dialogue about identity and clothing. The man is identified by name in the transcript as Harry Smith, and the woman as Mary Smith.

“What are you... what are you doing here?” 9:38 · “Harry Smith.” 9:48 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 9:38 (passage 9:37–10:05); US record: No renewal found

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