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Minesweeper · Beat 62 · permalink

Living room

15:56–16:41 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; 3 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 16:0416:04Frame at 16:2116:21Frame at 16:3416:34Frame at 16:4016:40

Play from 15:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 138–141. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • Mary Smith (named at t:16:09): woman, mid-20s, dark hair, wearing a light-colored dress with a dark belt visible, audible
  • Fix-It (named at t:16:13): man, 30s-40s, wearing a dark suit and cap, standing in doorway visible, audible
  • uncle (named at t:16:18): man, 30s-40s, wearing a dark suit, standing near staircase visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cap enters a room and greets a woman. [frame:1]
  • The woman and two men stand near a staircase in a room. [frame:2]
  • The woman opens a gift box while the two men watch. [frame:3]
  • The woman holds the opened gift box as the men look on. [frame:4]
Also said
“Happy birthday. Six, it's my uncle.” 16:18 · “Oh, dear.” 16:40
Seen
door, staircase, gift box, curtains, table with flowers, cap
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted with a hint of surprise; themes: birthday celebration, family interaction, gift-giving; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, staged interior set with visible props

A woman named Mary receives a birthday gift from two men in a room with a staircase and furniture. One man is addressed as 'Fix-It' and another is referred to as her uncle.

“Miss Mary Smith?” 16:09 · “Happy birthday, Mary, and many of them. Thank you, Fix-It.” 16:13 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 16:04 (passage 15:56–16:41); US record: No renewal found

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