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Danger Flight · Beat 77 · permalink

Private office

14:47–15:04 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 14:5014:50Frame at 14:5814:58Frame at 15:0315:03

Play from 14:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 169–171. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in fedora and dark coat, standing left visible
  • woman with blonde hair, wearing dark suit, arms crossed visible
  • man in dark suit, standing behind woman visible
  • man seated at desk, wearing headphones, writing visible
  • boy in light shirt and dark pants, joins group at desk visible
Seen happening
  • A group stands around a man at a desk using a radio or telephone. [frame:1]
  • A boy joins the group and places his hands on the back of the chair. [frame:2]
  • The group remains gathered around the seated man, who continues writing. [frame:3]
Also said
“Well, what do I do? I'm going to tell him a thing or two.” 14:50 · “What does he mean running off without me? Who does he think he is, anyway?” 14:50
Seen
desk [frame:1], headphones [frame:1], hanging lamp [frame:1], telephone or radio equipment [frame:1], chair [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and anxious; themes: communication under pressure, group concern for a missing person; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, focused on group interaction around a desk

A group of people gather around a man at a desk using a radio or telephone; one woman and two men stand behind him, and a boy joins them. The transcript indicates they are trying to contact someone named Tommy, who has left without them.

“QX478. 3 point to QX478. Come in, Tommy. Come in, Tommy.” 14:50 · “Well, can't you get him to answer?” 14:50 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 14:50 (passage 14:47–15:04); US record: No renewal found

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