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43:41–44:06 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 43:4543:45Frame at 43:5443:54Frame at 44:0244:02

Play from 43:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 46 · shots 264–266. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • wearing a white uniform with a head covering and dark belt, possibly military or ceremonial visible
  • silhouetted figure holding and playing a trumpet, wearing a hat or helmet visible
  • unknown, not visible audible
Seen happening
  • A person in white uniform walks through a doorway. [frame:1]
  • The person in white turns, revealing a face partially obscured by head covering. [frame:2]
  • A silhouetted figure plays a trumpet. [frame:3]
Seen
white uniform with head covering [frame:1], trumpet [frame:3], doorway [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or comedic, given the abrupt dialogue and visual contrast between the uniformed figure and the trumpet player; themes: miscommunication, military or ceremonial setting, comedy through interruption; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting with silhouettes, medium shots focusing on character movement and reaction

A person in a white uniform and head covering moves through a doorway while another figure in silhouette plays a trumpet. A voice tells someone to keep their mouth shut after reminding them they forgot their keys.

“You forgot your keys.” 43:50 · “Why don't you keep your mouth shut?” 43:55 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 43:45 (passage 43:41–44:06); US record: No renewal found

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