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Minesweeper · Beat 71 · permalink

Street

19:10–19:44 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; 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 19:1619:16Frame at 19:2419:24Frame at 19:3719:37Frame at 19:4219:42

Play from 19:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 42 · shots 163–167. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in officer's uniform, cap, standing upright visible
  • group of sailors in dark uniforms and caps, holding rifles visible
  • sailor in dark uniform and white cap, holding rifle, face visible visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Sailors stand at attention while an officer addresses them. [frame:1]
  • Sailors hold rifles at attention. [frame:2]
  • Officer in uniform is shown in close-up. [frame:3]
  • Sailors hold rifles; one looks forward. [frame:4]
Also said
“I. Well. I.” 19:41
Seen
rifle [frame:2], military uniform [frame:1], officer's cap [frame:3], sailor's cap [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, tense; themes: military discipline, physical strain, hierarchical command; style notes: black-and-white, medium and close-up shots, high-contrast lighting, static framing

A group of sailors in uniform stand at attention outdoors while an officer addresses them; one sailor speaks about shoulder pain. A close-up shows an officer in uniform, followed by a shot of sailors holding rifles.

“Right shoulder hurt!” 19:34 · “Left shoulder hurt!” 19:38 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 19:16 (passage 19:10–19:44); US record: No renewal found

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