Control room
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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 5:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 15 · shots 62–66. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- control_room (other, interior) evidence: frame:2
- People
- man in light uniform shirt, seated at desk with phone, mid-adult, average build visible, audible
- Seen happening
- A man picks up a telephone receiver in a control room. [frame:2]
- A USAF jet is shown flying overhead. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “Baker, too, sir.” 5:26 · “All patrol craft in test area, this is a mayday. Repeat, this is a mayday. Proceed to segment Baker 1-7. Search for Tar Baby 2.” 5:30
- Seen
- telephone [frame:2], control panel with dials and switches [frame:2], USAF jet aircraft [frame:3], USAF insignia on aircraft tail [frame:4]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: military communication, aviation emergency, cold war era technology; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up on operator, high-angle shot of aircraft, studio lighting
A man in a control room reports lost contact with aircraft while a USAF jet is shown in flight. Radio commands are issued to search for a missing plane named Tar Baby 2.
“Come in, Tar Baby 2.” 5:18 · “We've lost contact, sir.” 5:24 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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