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37:56–37:58 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 37:5737:57

Play from 37:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 38 · shots 226–226. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other) evidence: frame:1
People
  • tall, heavyset, wearing a black top hat, black tailcoat, white shirt, black bow tie, and a white flower boutonniere visible
  • shorter, wearing a bowler hat, light-colored suit jacket, vest, white shirt, black bow tie, and a white flower boutonniere visible
  • multiple background figures in hats and suits, some with white paper hats visible
Seen
top hat [frame:1], bowler hat [frame:1], bow ties [frame:1], boutonnieres [frame:1], paper hats [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, formal; themes: formal attire, crowd scene, comedy duo; style notes: medium shot, black-and-white, studio lighting, static framing, crowd in background suggests public gathering

Two men in formal attire stand among a crowd; one wears a top hat and bow tie, the other a bowler hat and bow tie. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 37:57 (passage 37:56–37:58); US record: No renewal found

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