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Minesweeper · Beat 80 · permalink

Ship

21:11–21:30 Registered 1943

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 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 21:1221:12Frame at 21:1721:17Frame at 21:2621:26Frame at 21:2921:29

Play from 21:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 47 · shots 185–189. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Tennessee Smith (named at t:21:13): sailor in dark uniform and white hat, medium build, appears mid-30s visible, audible
  • officer in dark uniform and cap, older, balding, authoritative visible, audible
  • officer in light uniform and cap, younger, clean-shaven visible
  • sailor in dark uniform and white hat, partially visible behind p1 visible
Also said
“He's going for gunners, mate, sir.” 21:13 · “I hope you make it, Smith. Thank you, sir. I'm going to try. That's the spirit.” 21:13
Seen
Navy uniforms [frame:1], officer caps [frame:2], ship structure in background [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and encouraging; themes: military discipline, aspiration, mentorship; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, studio lighting, military uniforms dominate frame

A sailor named Smith is addressed by officers who commend his adaptation to Navy routine and his aspiration to become a gunner. The scene shows sailors and officers in uniform, with dialogue indicating encouragement and ambition.

“Mr. Tennessee Smith? Yes, sir.” 21:13 · “I never saw a rookie take to Navy a routine like Smith does, sir.” 21:13 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 21:12 (passage 21:11–21:30); US record: No renewal found

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