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The Flying Deuces · Beat 122 · permalink

Vehicle interior

41:26–41:50 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 41:2741:27Frame at 41:3041:30Frame at 41:3441:34Frame at 41:4341:43

Play from 41:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 45 · shots 248–251. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, exterior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • Franser (named at t:41:41): man in dark uniform with peaked cap, military-style, medium build visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, light hair, heavier build, wearing a white ribbon or badge on lapel visible, audible
  • woman with dark hat and light hair, wearing dark coat visible
Seen happening
  • A man in uniform turns toward the camera with a serious expression. [frame:1]
  • A man and a woman stand facing each other near a car door. [frame:2]
  • The uniformed man gestures toward the car while the other man raises his hands in surprise. [frame:3]
  • The uniformed man and the man in the suit stand face to face, speaking. [frame:4]
Also said
“Your wife? Yes, you would-be homewrecker. Franser, Franser, please don't hear me. I don't understand. Kind of step into the car, my dear. I want to speak to this gentleman alone.” 41:41
Seen
uniform with peaked cap, dark suit with white ribbon badge, car with open door, woman's dark hat and coat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: marital dispute, misunderstanding, authority vs. civilian; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups and two-shots, studio lighting with high contrast, static camera

A man in uniform confronts another man beside a car while a woman is present; the uniformed man claims the woman is his wife and asks the other man to step into the car. The scene takes place outdoors near a vehicle, with dialogue indicating a dispute over the woman.

“Oh, this is... Oh, please. Please, please. It's a hurry. Please.” 41:28 · “What's the big idea? The idea is that this lady happens to be my wife.” 41:34 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 41:27 (passage 41:26–41:50); US record: No renewal found

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