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Minesweeper · Beat 85 · permalink

Sea

22:15–22:17 Registered 1943

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 22:1622:16

Play from 22:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 51 · shots 198–198. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sea (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Seen
small white object on water
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: isolated, ambiguous; style notes: high-contrast black and white, wide shot, overexposed sky, low detail on water

A small white object is visible on the surface of a dark, choppy sea under an overexposed sky. No people, vehicles, or structures are clearly identifiable in the frame.

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 22:16 (passage 22:15–22:17); US record: No renewal found

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