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Danger Flight · Beat 16 · permalink

Airfield

3:25–3:46 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 7 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 3:273:27Frame at 3:323:32Frame at 3:403:40Frame at 3:443:44

Play from 3:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 36–40. 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 in suit and fedora, leaning on fence visible
  • man in light shirt and dark trousers, standing upright visible, audible
  • boy in striped shirt, standing with hands behind back visible
  • girl in aviator cap and scarf, standing with others visible
  • boy in striped shirt and aviator cap visible
  • boy in patterned shirt and aviator cap visible
  • boy in striped shirt and aviator cap visible
Seen happening
  • A small plane flies near a control tower. [frame:1]
  • Three men stand near a fence on grassy ground. [frame:2]
  • A small plane is shown in flight against a cloudy sky. [frame:3]
  • Four youths in aviator gear stand together near a fence. [frame:4]
Also said
“Okay, shrimp, go chase it.” 3:43
Seen
small plane, control tower, fence, aviator caps, striped shirts
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: aviation, youth involvement, conflict over aircraft; style notes: black-and-white, medium and long shots, natural outdoor lighting, static framing

A small plane flies near a control tower while three men and four youths stand on a grassy area near a fence. One man speaks to another, telling him to move the plane away, and a youth is told to chase it.

“That's my plane. Get away.” 3:28 · “big transport. Don't you do it, you'll burst it. Take it away from her, Johnny. I see me the nose. You're getting shit wrong with dirt.” 3:32 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 3:27 (passage 3:25–3:46); US record: No renewal found

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