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The Flying Deuces · Beat 104 · permalink

Courtyard

36:55–37:03 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 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 36:5936:59

Play from 36:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 220–220. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
courtyard (courtyard, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark clothing, seen from behind, walking visible
  • man in lighter clothing, seen from behind, walking visible
Seen happening
  • Two men walk away from the camera along a sunlit corridor with arched openings. [frame:1]
Seen
arched corridor wall [frame:1], wall-mounted lanterns [frame:1], strong shadows cast on wall and ground [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, observational; themes: movement through space, architectural environment; style notes: static wide shot, high-contrast lighting, black and white, architectural framing with arches and shadows

Two men walk along a sunlit, arched outdoor corridor. The scene is shot in black and white with strong shadows and no visible dialogue or text.

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 The Flying Deuces (1939) at 36:59 (passage 36:55–37:03); US record: No renewal found

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