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The Flying Deuces · Beat 127 · permalink

Hallway

43:24–43:41 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; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 43:2843:28Frame at 43:3443:34Frame at 43:3943:39

Play from 43:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 46 · shots 261–263. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
hallway (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in white uniform and head covering, standing upright visible, audible
  • man in white uniform and head covering, kneeling or crouching visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men in white uniforms stand in a hallway. [frame:1]
  • One man kneels or crouches while speaking to the other. [frame:2]
  • One man turns and walks away down the hallway. [frame:3]
Also said
“I'll show them where they get off at. Huh!” 43:29 · “Well, what did we do?” 43:32
Seen
telephone, desk, uniforms, head coverings
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: confrontation, military or institutional setting, dialogue-driven scene; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, high-contrast lighting, static camera

Two men in white uniforms and head coverings are in a dimly lit hallway; one speaks while the other listens, then one turns and walks away. The dialogue includes a threat and a question about actions taken.

“I'll see you at sunrise.” 43:25 · “I'll, um...” 43:27 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 43:28 (passage 43:24–43:41); US record: No renewal found

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