Airfield
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 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.
Play from 4:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 32 · shots 59–62. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- airfield (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- adult male, wearing a pilot's uniform and cap, medium build visible, audible
- child, wearing striped shirt and aviator helmet, holding a model airplane visible, audible
- child, wearing striped shirt and aviator helmet, standing next to p2 visible, audible
- child, wearing aviator helmet, partially visible visible
- child, wearing aviator helmet, partially visible visible
- Whitey Lewis (named at t:4:32): child, standing near a tree, visible in distance visible, mentioned
- Seen happening
- A child holds a model airplane while standing next to the pilot. [frame:1]
- Whitey Lewis is visible standing near a tree, with other children nearby. [frame:4]
- Mentioned
- Children point out Whitey Lewis, who is standing near a tree in the distance. [t:4:32]
- Seen
- model airplane [frame:1], aviator helmets [frame:2], fence [frame:4], trees [frame:4]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but controlled; themes: authority and obedience, childhood mischief, aviation setting; style notes: medium shots, static framing, high-contrast black and white, outdoor daylight lighting
A man in a pilot's uniform speaks to a group of children on an airfield, one of whom holds a model airplane. The children explain that another boy, Whitey Lewis, threw Johnny's plane, and they point him out nearby.
“What did I tell you kids about keeping the field clear?” 4:29 · “Do it, Tommy? On a level. We were obeying your orders. That Whitey Lewis picked up Johnny's plane and threw it right out in front of you. Johnny couldn't help it, honestly, Tommy. That's right, Tommy. It was that Lewis kid. I saw him. Where is he? Right over there.” 4:32 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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