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Minesweeper · Beat 45 · permalink

Ship

11:25–12:06 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; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 11:3211:32Frame at 11:4011:40Frame at 11:5411:54Frame at 12:0212:02

Play from 11:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 28 · shots 99–103. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Smith (named at t:11:46): man in dark suit, medium build, dark hair visible, audible
  • Freshwater Hines (named at t:11:46): man in light shirt, medium build, dark hair visible, audible
  • man in naval uniform, cap, medium build visible, audible
  • man in naval uniform, cap, medium build visible
  • man in dark suit, medium build, dark hair visible
  • group of sailors in white hats and uniforms visible
Seen happening
  • Two men in civilian clothes walk toward a group of sailors on a ship deck. [frame:1]
  • A man in a naval uniform addresses a group of sailors holding papers. [frame:2]
  • A man in a suit greets another man in a naval uniform; sailors look on. [frame:3]
  • The man in the suit and the man in the naval uniform shake hands. [frame:4]
Also said
“Base inspection parade. See you later. Okay, Victor.” 12:00
Seen
naval uniforms, sailor caps, ship deck with railings and masts, papers held by officer
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal yet friendly; themes: naval service, promotion and discipline, reunion and camaraderie; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white, studio lighting on deck, group framing

Two men in civilian clothes interact with a group of sailors on a ship deck; one man is greeted by name. A voice-over discusses promotion requirements for sailors.

“Your ship offered you the same opportunity for promotion whether you've graduated from the trade school or not. But to be promoted you must work and study.” 11:36 · “Fix it Smith! Freshwater Hines! How have you been? Great! Glad to see you! Glad to see you! Oh boy, I bet we get that off of you in a hurry. Yeah, couple of looks at that face and yours will follow. A tip or a board? Open your ears and feast your eyes.” 11:46 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 11:32 (passage 11:25–12:06); US record: No renewal found

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