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Danger Flight · Beat 36 · permalink

Airport

4:48–5:09 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 4:504:50Frame at 4:534:53Frame at 4:594:59Frame at 5:075:07

Play from 4:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 32 · shots 63–66. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
airport (airport, exterior) evidence: frame:4
People
  • boy, short hair, light shirt, dark pants visible
  • Mike (named at t:4:59): man, suit, fedora, pocket square visible
  • group of boys and men in uniform, some holding model airplane visible
  • men in uniform near car and airplane visible
Seen happening
  • Man in suit speaks to boy near fence. [frame:1]
  • Group of boys and men in uniform stand on field with model airplane. [frame:2]
  • Man in suit and boy stand near fence again. [frame:3]
  • Men load car near airplane on tarmac. [frame:4]
Also said
“Okay, Mike, but I just don't want that stuffy to think he can make me go. Go on, get out of here.” 4:59
Seen
bicycle, chain-link fence, model airplane, airplane, car
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but resolved; themes: authority, youth, aviation, departure; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, outdoor lighting, static framing

A man in a suit speaks to a boy near a fence, then a group of boys and men in uniform stand on a field with a model airplane, and finally men load a car near an airplane on a tarmac. The transcript includes dialogue about leaving and a promise to return.

“Beat it, kid.” 4:48 · “I got a special reason for not wanting no trouble around here right now. He ought to have a good punch in the nose. Here's a buck. I'll be back tomorrow or the next day. Now get going.” 4:49 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 4:50 (passage 4:48–5:09); US record: No renewal found

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