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The Flying Deuces · Beat 118 · permalink

Sidewalk

39:53–40:16 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: visible event not seen. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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 39:5839:58Frame at 40:0940:09

Play from 39:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 239–240. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in dark suit, bowler hat, and bow tie, holding a suitcase visible
  • man in dark suit, bowler hat, and bow tie, gesturing with right hand visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Three biplanes fly in formation against a cloudy sky. [frame:1]
  • Two men in suits and bowler hats stand on a sidewalk with luggage; one gestures while speaking. [frame:2]
Seen
biplanes [frame:1], suitcases [frame:2], bowler hats [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted and conversational; themes: travel, comedy, aviation; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot of characters, wide shot of planes; studio lighting on figures, natural sky background

Two men in suits and bowler hats stand outdoors with luggage; one gestures while speaking. Three biplanes fly in formation overhead, visible against a cloudy sky.

“I wonder what keeps them up. I don't know, but I know what keeps me down.” 40:04 · “Me too. Good old terracotta for me anytime. Promiscis we have.” 40:10 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 39:58 (passage 39:53–40:16); US record: No renewal found

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