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Danger Flight · Beat 118 · permalink

Private office

18:55–19:09 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 18:5918:59Frame at 19:0619:06

Play from 18:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 74 · shots 240–241. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and fedora, standing left visible
  • man in dark suit, facing right, mid-frame visible
  • woman with light hair, wearing dark jacket, standing behind p2 visible
  • boy in light shirt, standing behind p2 visible
  • man in light jacket, seen from back, moving toward door visible
  • man seated at desk, wearing dark jacket, facing away visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a light jacket moves toward a door. [frame:2]
  • A group stands in an office, looking toward the door. [frame:1]
Also said
“But we've got to do something, Skeeter.” 18:56 · “I'll talk him down. I'll get him down. Open that door.” 18:56
Seen
desk lamp, wall-mounted light fixture, door, telephone
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, urgency, team decision-making; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, high contrast lighting, static camera

A group of people are gathered in a dimly lit interior space; one man speaks about talking someone down while another moves toward a door. No names are spoken, and no outdoor scene or time of day is established.

“Let me know when you hear my motor.” 18:56 · “You can't sure he tries that.” 18:56 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 18:59 (passage 18:55–19:09); US record: No renewal found

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