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The Flying Deuces · Beat 120 · permalink

Airport

40:25–40:40 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; 2 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 40:2840:28Frame at 40:3540:35Frame at 40:4040:40

Play from 40:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 45 · shots 242–244. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
airport (airport, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in military-style uniform with peaked cap, boots, and short trousers visible, audible
  • woman in dark dress and hat with feather, wearing heels visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Man helps woman step down from biplane [frame:1]
  • Man and woman face each other closely, speaking [frame:2]
  • Man walks away from woman toward off-screen, woman remains standing by plane [frame:3]
Also said
“Have you missed me? Every day has been a year, darling.” 40:35 · “I'll bring the car for you. Wait here just a moment.” 40:38
Seen
biplane [frame:1], military uniform [frame:1], woman's hat with feather [frame:2], woman's dark dress and heels [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: romantic and tender; themes: reunion, romantic anticipation, military service; style notes: medium close-ups and two-shots emphasize intimacy; high-contrast black-and-white lighting; static camera framing

A man in uniform helps a woman from a biplane; they speak intimately, and he departs to fetch a car while she waits. The setting is an airfield during daylight, with the biplane and open sky visible.

“Now, I'm so happy.” 40:32 · “At last I'm here with you.” 40:33 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 40:28 (passage 40:25–40:40); US record: No renewal found

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