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1:53–2:15 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; 3 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 1:571:57Frame at 2:042:04Frame at 2:112:11

Play from 1:53 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 5 · shots 15–17. 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 wearing dark suit and fedora, standing, holding a gun visible
  • man wearing dark suit and fedora, seated, head slightly bowed visible
  • man wearing light shirt and fedora, standing, smoking a cigarette visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark suit stands holding a gun toward another man who is seated. [frame:1]
  • The standing man with the gun gestures while the seated man looks up. [frame:2]
  • The man with the gun extends his hand holding the gun toward the seated man. [frame:3]
Also said
“Boy. Good old Patriots. Here we go. Come on.” 2:08 · “Sheriff!” 2:14
Seen
gun, cigarette, fedora hats, wooden structure
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, authority, crime; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, medium shots framing three characters in a confined space, static camera

Three men are present in a dimly lit interior space; one stands holding a gun while another sits and a third stands nearby. A line is spoken calling out 'Sheriff!' at 2:14.

“Against what? The sticker.” 2:00 · “Go ahead. Go ahead.” 2:06 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 1:57 (passage 1:53–2:15); US record: No renewal found

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