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Danger Flight · Beat 54 · permalink

Shop

8:36–8:54 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 8:388:38Frame at 8:438:43Frame at 8:508:50

Play from 8:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 39 · shots 104–106. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
shop (shop, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • tall man, dark suit, tie, dark hair, adult visible
  • Philip (named at t:8:52): shorter man, dark sweater over collared shirt, light curly hair, appears young adult visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The taller man stands facing the shorter man in a shop. [frame:1]
  • The taller man gestures with his hand toward the shorter man. [frame:2]
  • The taller man places his hand on the shorter man's shoulder. [frame:3]
Also said
“Whoa, I'm just trying to feel your muscle.” 8:47 · “Philip!” 8:52
Seen
shelves with boxes [frame:1], counter [frame:1], posters on wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, physical assessment, name recognition; style notes: medium two-shot, static camera, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s studio films

Two men are in a shop, one taller in a suit and the other shorter in a sweater, with the taller man touching the shorter one's shoulder. The shorter man is addressed by the name Philip during their exchange.

“None of your business.” 8:42 · “Pretty tough, huh?” 8:45 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 8:38 (passage 8:36–8:54); US record: No renewal found

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