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The Flying Deuces · Beat 136 · permalink

Private office

45:43–45:55 Registered 1939

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

Frame at 45:4945:49

Play from 45:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 51 · shots 280–280. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a light-colored uniform and cap, seated, holding an object visible
Seen happening
  • A man in uniform holds an object close to his chest. [frame:1]
Seen
uniform and cap [frame:1], object held by man [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or surprised; themes: military or service uniform, sudden reaction; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up, high contrast lighting

A man in a uniform and cap is visible in a dimly lit interior, holding an object close to his chest. No names, time of day, or period are established from the frame or transcript.

“What?” 45:47 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 45:49 (passage 45:43–45:55); US record: No renewal found

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