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Minesweeper · Beat 97 · permalink

Ship

24:55–25:11 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 24:5924:59Frame at 25:0425:04Frame at 25:0725:07Frame at 25:1025:10

Play from 24:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 58 · shots 223–226. 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, frame:3
People
  • officer in light uniform and cap, standing profile, mid-adult visible, audible
  • officer in dark uniform and cap, facing p1, mid-adult visible, audible
  • crew member in white cap and dark shirt, standing on deck, mid-adult visible
  • crew member in white cap, back to camera, mid-adult visible
Seen happening
  • The first officer raises binoculars to his eyes. [frame:2]
  • Crew members stand on deck, some facing away. [frame:4]
Also said
“For the boat, check out a detail to unfile the gear.” 25:01 · “Aye, aye, sir.” 25:01
Seen
binoculars [frame:2], ship's deck railing [frame:1], ship's rigging and equipment [frame:3], white caps [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: procedural, authoritative; themes: military discipline, naval operations, command hierarchy; style notes: medium shots, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s naval films

Two officers on a ship's deck give orders about preparing boats and gear; crew members are visible on deck and at stations. The setting is a naval vessel at sea, with equipment and rigging visible.

“out a detail in boats to unfile the gear.” 25:01 · “Aye, sir.” 25:01 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 24:59 (passage 24:55–25:11); US record: No renewal found

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