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Minesweeper · Beat 54 · permalink

Private office

13:47–14:33 Registered 1943

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 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 13:4913:49Frame at 14:0414:04Frame at 14:1214:12Frame at 14:2914:29

Play from 13:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 35 · shots 120–125. 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 in naval uniform, mid-30s, average build visible, audible
  • Smith (named at t:13:56): civilian man in dark suit, mid-30s, average build visible, audible
  • civilian man in light shirt, mid-30s, average build visible
  • man in tight shirt with large chest emblem, mid-30s, stocky build visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a naval uniform stands holding a hat. [frame:1]
  • The naval officer and two civilians stand facing each other. [frame:2]
  • One civilian looks toward the officer while the other looks away. [frame:3]
  • A man in a tight shirt with a large emblem on the chest is shown with his mouth open. [frame:4]
Also said
“Oh Jim's just a little bit worried sir. You know where to get in or not. Hmm deep sea diver. Right.” 14:14 · “You're in the Navy.” 14:26
Seen
naval uniform [frame:1], hat [frame:1], blinds [frame:1], tight shirt with emblem [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and slightly tense; themes: naval authority, civilian-military interaction, identity verification; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period naval costume

A man in a naval uniform speaks with two civilians in a room with blinds; one civilian is later shown in a tight shirt with a large emblem on the chest. The dialogue reveals the civilian's name is Smith and that he is a deep-sea diver, with a brief mention of past locations like Hawaii and Florida.

“Did you say your name was Smith?” 13:56 · “Afraid not, sir, unless it was down in Florida in the salvage business or in the South Sea.” 14:05 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 13:49 (passage 13:47–14:33); US record: No renewal found

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