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The Flying Deuces · Beat 147 · permalink

Field

50:03–50:25 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 50:1450:14

Play from 50:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 54 · shots 304–304. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • indistinct figure, possibly light-clothed, standing near a tree visible
  • unseen audible
  • unseen audible
Seen happening
  • A figure stands near a gnarled tree in a dark, cloudy landscape. [frame:1]
Seen
gnarled tree [frame:1], cloudy sky [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: ominous; themes: confinement, dawn, authority; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, silhouetted tree, static wide shot

A figure is visible near a gnarled tree in a dark, cloudy outdoor setting. Off-screen voices command prisoners to be brought and urge someone to move as the sun is up.

“Bring the prisoners!” 50:17 · “All right, come on, you. The sun's up. Come on.” 50:25 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 50:14 (passage 50:03–50:25); US record: No renewal found

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