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Danger Flight · Beat 61 · permalink

Airport

11:13–11:37 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; 5 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 11:1611:16Frame at 11:2411:24Frame at 11:3311:33

Play from 11:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 134–136. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
airport (airport, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • boy, striped shirt, cap, holding a model airplane visible
  • boy, white shirt, cap, holding a model airplane visible
  • man, uniform, cap, standing, authoritative posture visible
  • woman, curly hair, coat, leaning over a desk visible
  • man, seated, wearing headphones, looking at papers visible
Seen happening
  • A uniformed man tells two boys to leave the control room. [frame:1]
  • The uniformed man gestures while speaking to the boys. [frame:2]
  • A woman and a man examine flight data at a desk. [frame:3]
Also said
“Well, I've seen some storms in my time, but this one has the air marks of being the granddaddy of them all.” 11:14 · “What's the news on flight 14?” 11:14
Seen
model airplane, headphones, flight control desk, uniform
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and tense; themes: aviation, storm preparation, authority and youth; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, studio lighting, focused on character interaction and control room equipment

Two boys are told to leave an airfield control room by a uniformed officer while a storm approaches; a woman and a man later look at flight data. The transcript mentions Flight 14 and a severe storm.

“Hey, you kids, you ought to be home. We've got to finish our ship.” 11:14 · “This is a swell night for good flyers to keep their ships on the ground.” 11:14 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 11:16 (passage 11:13–11:37); US record: No renewal found

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