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48:23–48:42 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; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 48:3348:33

Play from 48:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 53 · shots 298–298. 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
People
  • man in light-colored uniform, standing, holding a long object visible
  • Noah (named at t:48:28): man in light-colored uniform, crouching, wearing a cap visible
  • Jim (named at t:48:28): unseen, referred to in dialogue mentioned
Seen happening
  • A man stands holding a long object while another crouches nearby. [frame:1]
Seen
long object (possibly a bat or stick), uniforms (light-colored), cap
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or conspiratorial; themes: confrontation, covert action, comedy of menace; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, silhouetted figures, static medium shot

Two men in light uniforms are in a dark space; one stands holding a long object while the other crouches. One man is addressed as Noah and another as Jim in the dialogue.

“Come on, let's get him.” 48:25 · “He's a little fella, Noah. Take this, Jim. Shh, look away. Look at him.” 48:28 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 48:33 (passage 48:23–48:42); US record: No renewal found

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