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Danger Flight · Beat 7 · permalink

Airport

1:28–1:49 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:291:29Frame at 1:391:39Frame at 1:421:42Frame at 1:491:49

Play from 1:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 7 · shots 10–15. 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
  • younger man, curly hair, light shirt, leaning on fence visible
  • Whitey (named at t:1:28): older man, wearing fedora and pinstripe suit, smiling visible
Seen happening
  • A small airplane flies over a palm tree and building. [frame:4]
Also said
“Think you're all grown up and tough, huh? What do you think? I think you're all right, kid. You know that. Nobody's gonna push you around any more than they're gonna push me.” 1:38
Seen
chain-link fence, fedora hat, pinstripe suit, palm tree, small airplane, long building
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted and encouraging; themes: mentorship, aviation, youth and growth; style notes: medium shots with bright outdoor lighting, static camera, focus on character interaction and a distant action (plane)

Two men stand by a chain-link fence outdoors; one is younger and casually dressed, the other older in a suit and hat. A small airplane flies over a palm tree and a long building in the background.

“Things fly kind of good, huh, Whitey?” 1:28 · “and have some fun. Who me? Say, wouldn't that look just too sweet playing with them baby toys?” 1:31 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 1:29 (passage 1:28–1:49); US record: No renewal found

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