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The Flying Deuces · Beat 14 · permalink

Bedroom

5:22–5:34 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 5:235:23Frame at 5:285:28Frame at 5:325:32

Play from 5:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 7 · shots 23–25. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • heavyset man, wearing white shirt, black tie, dark suspenders, dark trousers visible, audible
  • man wearing dark vest over white shirt, dark trousers, bending over visible
Seen happening
  • A man bends over a piece of furniture, possibly adjusting a cushion. [frame:2]
Also said
“Come on.” 5:27 · “See? See?” 5:29
Seen
cushion [t:5:22], bed [frame:2], wall clock or framed picture [frame:1], lamp [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comic; themes: physical comedy, miscommunication, domestic inconvenience; style notes: medium shots, static camera, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s studio comedies

A man in suspenders speaks while another man bends over a piece of furniture. The dialogue suggests they are rearranging a cushion to avoid head bumps.

“What are you doing with that cushion?” 5:22 · “Well, I keep on bumping me head.” 5:25 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 5:23 (passage 5:22–5:34); US record: No renewal found

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