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Minesweeper · Beat 73 · permalink

Ship

20:08–20:28 Registered 1943

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 20:0920:09Frame at 20:1120:11Frame at 20:2220:22Frame at 20:2720:27

Play from 20:08 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 172–176. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in officer's cap and light uniform shirt with tie visible
  • man in sailor's uniform and white hat, facing camera visible
  • man in sailor's uniform and white hat, arms crossed, standing in background visible
Seen happening
  • A target with concentric rings and numbers is shown. [frame:1]
  • Two sailors in uniform are seen on a ship deck, one facing the camera. [frame:2]
  • A sailor in uniform faces the camera while another stands with arms crossed in the background. [frame:3]
  • The target with concentric rings and numbers is shown again. [frame:4]
Seen
target, target, sailor uniform, officer uniform
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: military training, naval life; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static framing, studio lighting

A target with concentric rings and numbers is shown, followed by a scene with sailors in uniform on what appears to be a ship deck. One sailor faces the camera while another stands with arms crossed in the background. The target reappears at the end.

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 20:09 (passage 20:08–20:28); US record: No renewal found

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