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Danger Flight · Beat 45 · permalink

Road

6:43–6:46 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 6:456:45

Play from 6:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 85–85. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a dark suit and hat, crouching visible
Seen
{'item': 'black car with open door', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'second black car, front right visible', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'dirt road', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'trees and grassy hillside', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: automobile, outdoor setting, suspense; style notes: medium shot, black and white, natural outdoor lighting, shallow depth of field with foreground car partially obscuring view

A man in a suit crouches beside a parked car on a dirt road with trees and a hillside in the background. Another car is partially visible in the foreground.

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 6:45 (passage 6:43–6:46); US record: No renewal found

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