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The Flying Deuces · Beat 144 · permalink

Tunnel

48:42–49:29 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 49:0649:06

Play from 48:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 53 · shots 299–299. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
tunnel (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light-colored suit, crawling, visible in low light visible, audible
  • man in light-colored suit, crawling, visible in low light visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men crawl through a dark tunnel. [frame:1]
Also said
“We're making our escape.” 48:58 · “Isn't this fun? Isn't this fun?” 49:15
Seen
light-colored suits [frame:1], dark tunnel [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comedic tension; themes: escape, absurdity, comedy; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing on crawling figures, black-and-white film stock

Two men in light-colored suits crawl through a dark tunnel while discussing their escape. One asks if they are allowed to escape, and they both express amusement at the situation.

“Say, where are we going?” 48:52 · “This tunnel leads to the outside wall.” 48:56 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 49:06 (passage 48:42–49:29); US record: No renewal found

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