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The Flying Deuces · Beat 125 · permalink

Airfield

42:26–43:07 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; 4 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 42:2942:29Frame at 42:5042:50

Play from 42:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 45 · shots 258–259. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
airfield (airport, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in tuxedo with bow tie and lapel pin, medium build, middle-aged visible
  • man in dark suit, partially visible, walking away visible
  • man in light-colored uniform or jacket, visible in background visible
  • José (named at t:43:01): unspecified, audible only audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a tuxedo stands near an aircraft. [frame:1]
  • Men are led away from the aircraft. [frame:2]
Also said
“To the circus.” 42:54 · “Is that José?” 43:01
Seen
aircraft with cross markings, tuxedo with bow tie and lapel pin, dark suit, light-colored uniform or jacket
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and abrupt; themes: authority and arrest, sudden change of plan, military discipline; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, medium shots, static framing, dramatic lighting

A man in a tuxedo stands near an aircraft as others are led away; dialogue indicates arrest for desertion and orders to jail them. Someone exclaims 'To the circus' and asks if another is José, suggesting a shift in location or plan.

“You're under arrest for desertion.” 42:37 · “Throw them into jail and have the guard to keep a close watch on them.” 42:42 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 42:29 (passage 42:26–43:07); US record: No renewal found

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