Ship
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 24:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 57 · shots 219–221. 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 naval officer uniform, cap, medium build, visible in profile visible, audible
- man in naval uniform, cap, seen from back and side, medium build visible
- man in naval uniform, cap, holding binoculars, visible in profile visible
- man in naval uniform, cap, standing beside p3, holding object visible
- Seen happening
- A ship is seen on open water with a mine or object floating nearby. [frame:1]
- Two naval officers converse on deck, one facing the other. [frame:2]
- One officer uses binoculars while another stands beside him. [frame:3]
- Seen
- naval officer uniform [frame:2], binoculars [frame:3], ship railing [frame:2], floating object (possibly mine) [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: naval duty, mine threat, military procedure; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots on deck, natural lighting, static camera
A naval vessel is shown on the water with crew members in uniform on deck; one uses binoculars while another speaks about drifting and mines. The transcript includes dialogue about engine failure and a potential mine threat.
“Edwin sir engine stops we right drifting back along our sweep line for the mind I had one third come left to your car I said” 24:31 · “That could have course for that little number would make a great show with it one way ticket to Davy Jones” 24:46 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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