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Minesweeper · Beat 84 · permalink

Ship

22:10–22:15 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 22:1322:13

Play from 22:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 50 · shots 197–197. 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
  • man in light-colored civilian shirt and cap, holding a large horn-like object visible
  • man in light-colored military uniform with cap and binoculars around neck visible
  • man in dark long-sleeved shirt and belt, adjusting headgear visible
Seen
large horn-like object [frame:1], binoculars [frame:1], military cap [frame:1], belt [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, observational; themes: military setting, naval activity, group interaction; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, typical of 1940s studio filming

Three men stand on a ship deck; one in civilian clothes holds a large horn-like object, another in uniform wears binoculars, and a third in dark clothing adjusts his headgear. The setting is a ship deck during daylight, with no visible landmarks or time indicators.

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 22:13 (passage 22:10–22:15); US record: No renewal found

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