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Two Weeks to Live · Beat 146 · permalink

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1:05:32–1:05:59 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; 5 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 1:05:361:05:36Frame at 1:05:501:05:50

Play from 1:05:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 60 · shots 341–342. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Plunkett (named at t:65:32): older man, bowler hat, dark suit, white hair, standing at podium visible, audible
  • Lom Edwards (named at t:65:56): man in fedora, seated, looking up at speaker visible, audible
  • man in aviator helmet, seated, facing forward visible
  • man in fedora, standing behind speaker, partially visible visible
  • audience members, seated, wearing hats visible
Also said
“I'm glad you brought that up. Plunkett. Plunkett. Make a note of that.” 65:42 · “My name's Lom Edwards.” 65:56
Seen
microphone [frame:1], sign reading 'MARS AIRPORT' [frame:1], podium [frame:1], bowler hat [frame:1], aviator helmet [frame:1], fedora hats [frame:1]
On screen
MARS AIRPORT
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comedic, satirical; themes: space travel satire, scientific pretense, self-promotion; style notes: studio-lit, medium shots, static framing, 1940s black-and-white film style

A man in a bowler hat speaks at a podium in front of a sign reading 'MARS AIRPORT' while others listen; another man introduces himself as Lom Edwards. The scene includes a microphone and seated audience members.

“No, Plunkett, Plunkett, aren't we ready yet?” 65:32 · “If this guy does get to Mars,” 65:37 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 Two Weeks to Live (1943) at 1:05:36 (passage 1:05:32–1:05:59); US record: No renewal found

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