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Minesweeper · Beat 7 · permalink

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1:31–1:53 Registered 1943

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:381:38Frame at 1:491:49

Play from 1:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 5 · shots 13–14. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and fedora, standing, medium build visible
  • man in light shirt and dark pants, seated on a low surface, holding a cigarette visible, audible
  • man in dark clothing, crouched or sitting on floor, head down visible
Seen happening
  • One man offers a cigarette to another. [frame:1]
Also said
“You don't like our company you know what you can do. I'm mad again I wouldn't think it's such a thing. Relational accommodation. Intellectual companionship and something cooking on the stove.” 1:45
Seen
cigarette [frame:2], fedora hat [frame:1], dark suit [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: conflict, domestic tension, male camaraderie under stress; style notes: low-key lighting, medium shots, static framing, black-and-white film stock

Two men stand in a dimly lit interior while a third man sits on the floor; one standing man offers a cigarette. The dialogue suggests tension and a reference to domestic life.

“Last of my. Got a cigarette.” 1:31 · “Likewise the last. Thanks. I'm delighted for you old boy.” 1:38 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 1:38 (passage 1:31–1:53); US record: No renewal found

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