Airfield
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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 1:11:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 63 · shots 368–370. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- airfield (airport, exterior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man wearing a flight helmet, seated in aircraft cockpit visible
- Mr. Peabody (named at t:71:10): older man with white hair, wearing a dark suit, bow tie, and fedora, holding money visible, audible
- Seen happening
- A man in a helmet is seated in an aircraft cockpit. [frame:1]
- Mr. Peabody stands beside the aircraft holding money and speaking. [frame:2]
- The man in the helmet remains seated in the aircraft. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “Oh, sir, I can't afford to have Lum take that kind of a risk.” 71:16 · “Abner! Mr. Peabody, I've devoted my whole life to the perfection of this machine.” 71:24
- Seen
- small aircraft, flight helmet, fedora hat, money, bow tie
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: danger, moral conflict, invention gone wrong; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, static framing, high-contrast lighting emphasizing facial expressions
A man in a helmet is seated in a small aircraft while another man in a suit and hat stands nearby holding money and speaking. The dialogue indicates a plea to stop a dangerous action involving the aircraft and money.
“Abner! Abner! Get me out of that thing!” 71:07 · “I don't get away the minute. I've changed my mind. I ain't going to do it. Please, Mr. Peabody.” 71:10 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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