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The Flying Deuces · Beat 145 · permalink

Jail

49:29–49:43 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 49:3149:31Frame at 49:3849:38

Play from 49:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 53 · shots 300–301. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
jail (jail, interior) evidence: t:49:35
People
  • man in light shirt, crouching, visible in frame:1 and frame:2 visible, audible
  • man in light shirt, crouching, visible in frame:1 and frame:2 visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The men are crouched in a dark space, discussing digging out. [frame:1]
Also said
“I don't want to go back to the South.” 49:38 · “Will you hurry? This is our last chance.” 49:40
Seen
light-colored shirts [frame:1], dark background [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: confinement, desperation, collaboration under pressure; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing on two figures, high contrast between light shirts and black background

Two men in light-colored shirts are crouched in a dark space, speaking urgently about digging out and retrieving plates from a cell. One expresses reluctance to return to the South, while the other insists it is their last chance.

“See what you've done?” 49:31 · “Go back to the cell and get those 10 plates.” 49:35 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 49:31 (passage 49:29–49:43); US record: No renewal found

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