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Danger Flight · Beat 10 · permalink

Private office

1:53–2:21 Registered 1939

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; 6 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 1:551:55Frame at 1:591:59Frame at 2:142:14Frame at 2:202:20

Play from 1:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 10 · shots 18–22. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, standing behind desk visible
  • man in dark suit, facing desk visible
  • Colton (named at t:2:05): woman with blonde curled hair, wearing dark jacket with pilot-style insignia visible, audible
  • boy in striped shirt holding model plane visible
  • group of children holding model planes visible
  • man in dark suit, partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands behind a desk while another man faces him. [frame:1]
  • Children with model planes gather outside near a hangar. [frame:2]
  • A woman holds a model plane and speaks to men in an office. [frame:3]
  • A woman with blonde hair holds a model plane and speaks. [frame:4]
Also said
“Hey, you kids, watch out what you're doing out there.” 2:02 · “Oh, you mean those kids with the model planes, eh? Yeah, it's a flying club Tompkins got up. And they are using our field. And it's a good idea, too, Mr. Brown.” 2:13
Seen
model plane [frame:2], desk with telephone and papers [frame:1], hangar in background [frame:2], pilot-style insignia on jacket [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: calm but slightly tense, with undertones of wartime concern; themes: youth aviation, civil defense preparation, community involvement in wartime; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal framing typical of 1930s studio films

In an office, a man and a woman discuss a flying club using the field, while outside, children with model planes are warned to be careful. A woman holds a model plane and speaks about the club's activities.

“Nothing to be alarmed over, Mr. Browns.” 1:53 · “Gee, that's what you call flying, huh? Gosh, I wonder what Tailspin will say.” 1:56 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 Danger Flight (1939) at 1:55 (passage 1:53–2:21); US record: No renewal found

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