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The Flying Deuces · Beat 139 · permalink

Jail

46:20–47:01 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 46:3346:33Frame at 46:4946:49Frame at 46:5346:53Frame at 46:5846:58

Play from 46:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 53 · shots 283–286. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
jail (jail, interior) evidence: frame:4
People
  • man wearing light-colored shirt, trousers, and a cap, crouching or sitting visible, audible
  • man wearing light-colored shirt, trousers, and a cap, sitting then standing with a pillow visible
Seen happening
  • A man crouches and gestures while speaking. [frame:1]
  • A man sits and holds another man's arm. [frame:2]
  • A man sits at a desk, turning away. [frame:3]
  • A man stands holding a pillow, with a barred window visible behind him. [frame:4]
Also said
“I'll play another one now. Shut up!” 46:54 · “Go to sleep!” 46:58
Seen
pillow [frame:4], barred window [frame:4], desk [frame:3], cap [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: confinement, conflict, authority vs. resistance; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, medium shots, static camera

Two men in light uniforms and caps are in a dim interior; one crouches while speaking, the other sits and later stands holding a pillow. A barred window is visible in the final frame. No names are spoken, and no time of day or period is established.

“I'm not.” 46:32 · “I'm not.” 46:48 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 46:33 (passage 46:20–47:01); US record: No renewal found

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