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Danger Flight · Beat 58 · permalink

Shop

10:09–10:30 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; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 10:1010:10Frame at 10:1610:16Frame at 10:2110:21Frame at 10:2610:26

Play from 10:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 39 · shots 122–125. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
shop (shop, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • Captain (named at t:10:24): adult male, dark suit, tie, neat hair visible, audible
  • Tommy (named at t:10:24): young male, dark sweater, curly hair visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A person's hand holds a small object near a window, with a blurred outdoor scene visible. [frame:1]
  • Captain and Tommy stand at a counter; Captain looks down at items, Tommy looks up at him. [frame:2]
  • Tommy speaks to Captain, who listens while standing at the counter. [frame:3]
  • Captain turns his head to the right while Tommy looks down at the counter. [frame:4]
Also said
“Well there it is Tommy. I checked it and there's everything you ordered.” 10:24 · “Thanks, Captain.” 10:28
Seen
counter [frame:2], shelves with boxes [frame:2], small object held near window [frame:1], goods on counter [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but routine; themes: economic constraint, authority and youth, transactional interaction; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast lighting, static camera, period costume

Two people are in a shop; one, called Captain, confirms an order is complete while the other, Tommy, mentions having only one dollar for a two-dollar item. The setting includes shelves with boxes and a counter with goods.

“Hey, you're allowed to bust it.” 10:11 · “But it's two dollars and I only got one.” 10:19 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 10:10 (passage 10:09–10:30); US record: No renewal found

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