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Minesweeper · Beat 63 · permalink

Living room

16:41–16:59 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 16:4316:43Frame at 16:4916:49Frame at 16:5616:56

Play from 16:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 142–144. 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
  • man in dark uniform with insignia on sleeve, mid-30s, average build visible, audible
  • Blue Eyes (named at t:16:48): woman with curly hair, wearing a patterned dress, 20s-30s, average build visible, audible
  • Mr. Elliot (named at t:16:56): man in dark uniform, similar to p1, mid-30s, average build visible, audible
  • woman in apron, standing in background, 30s-40s visible
Seen happening
  • A gift box with a note reading 'Happy Birthday to Blue Eyes' is shown. [frame:1]
  • A woman accepts a gift from a man in uniform while another man in uniform stands nearby. [frame:2]
  • The woman bends over the gift box as the second man in uniform enters and greets the group. [frame:3]
Also said
“You know any other blue-eyed girl I could give it to?” 16:48 · “Oh, Mr. Elliot.” 16:56
Seen
gift box, note card, uniforms, curtains, shelf
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: warm and slightly formal; themes: gift-giving, military presence, personal celebration; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, static framing, period costume

A woman receives a gift from a man in uniform while another man in uniform enters the room; a note reads 'Happy Birthday to Blue Eyes'. The scene takes place indoors with three people present and a fourth person visible in the background.

“It's beautiful.” 16:43 · “Really, it's too nice, I shouldn't accept it.” 16:46 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 16:43 (passage 16:41–16:59); US record: No renewal found

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