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The Flying Deuces · Beat 117 · permalink

Airport

39:38–39:53 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 39:4239:42Frame at 39:4939:49

Play from 39:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 237–238. 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
  • man in bowler hat, suit, carrying suitcase visible
  • man in dark coat, carrying suitcase visible
  • man on horse, wearing uniform visible
Seen happening
  • A man gestures toward a horse and rider passing in the background. [frame:1]
  • Two men stand facing each other holding suitcases. [frame:2]
Seen
suitcases [frame:1, frame:2], horse and rider [frame:1], bowler hat [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comic; themes: travel, misunderstanding, comedy duo; style notes: medium shots, static camera, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s studio films

Two men with suitcases stand in a large indoor space; one gestures while speaking. A horse and rider pass in the background. The dialogue suggests they are discussing whether to board a plane.

“Come on.” 39:44 · “Say, we're not going to take a plane, are we? I should say not.” 39:47 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 The Flying Deuces (1939) at 39:42 (passage 39:38–39:53); US record: No renewal found

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