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The Flying Deuces · Beat 141 · permalink

Private office

47:41–48:03 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 47:4847:48Frame at 47:5847:58

Play from 47:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 53 · shots 293–294. 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 in light uniform, seated, wearing cap visible
  • man in light uniform, seated, wearing cap, holding note visible
Seen happening
  • Two men in uniforms sit facing each other in a dim room. [frame:1]
  • A hand holds a torn piece of paper with handwritten instructions. [frame:2]
Seen
handwritten note, uniforms, chairs
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, secretive; themes: covert communication, military or institutional setting, personal instruction; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, medium close-up on note, static framing

Two men in light-colored uniforms sit in a dim room; one holds a handwritten note. The note instructs to lift a floorboard to find a tunnel leading to the outer wall and advises using one's own judgment.

“Oh.” 47:42 · “I.” 47:43 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 47:48 (passage 47:41–48:03); US record: No renewal found

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