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Minesweeper · Beat 77 · permalink

Field

20:45–20:47 Registered 1943

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 20:4620:46

Play from 20:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 45 · shots 180–180. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • sailor in dark uniform and white cap, kneeling at telescope visible
  • sailor in dark uniform and white cap, standing behind p1 visible
  • sailor in dark uniform and white cap, crouching to right of telescope visible
Seen
telescope on tripod [frame:1], sailor uniforms and caps [frame:1], grass [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: focused, observational; themes: military observation, naval activity; style notes: medium shot, black and white, high contrast lighting, static framing

A group of sailors in uniform are gathered around a mounted telescope on grass. One sailor kneels at the telescope while others stand or crouch nearby.

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 20:46 (passage 20:45–20:47); US record: No renewal found

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