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British Intelligence · Beat 25 · permalink

Field

6:40–7:00 Registered 1940

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 6:426:42Frame at 6:476:47Frame at 6:526:52Frame at 6:596:59

Play from 6:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 20 · shots 57–63. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:4
People
  • soldier wearing helmet and uniform, looking upward visible
  • soldier wearing helmet and uniform, looking upward, mouth open visible, audible
  • pilot in open cockpit of biplane, wearing helmet and goggles visible
Seen happening
  • A pilot is visible in the cockpit of a biplane. [frame:1]
  • A biplane is shown from the front, with two figures visible in the cockpit. [frame:2]
  • A biplane flies in the sky, seen from a distance. [frame:3]
  • Two soldiers in uniform and helmets look up at the sky. [frame:4]
Seen
biplane [frame:1], helmet [frame:4], uniform [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: war, observation, flight; style notes: black-and-white, medium and long shots, high-angle sky shots, ground-level reaction shots

Two soldiers on the ground watch an aircraft in the sky; one of them speaks about pulling in at Saranac and a man's chance. The aircraft is shown from multiple angles, including a close-up of the pilot and a distant shot of it flying.

“I've got to pull right in Saranac. He has a blinking chance in the world. Look at him flip-flopping man.” 6:55 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 British Intelligence (1940) at 6:42 (passage 6:40–7:00); US record: No renewal found

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