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The Flying Deuces · Beat 156 · permalink

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52:32–52:50 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; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 52:3652:36Frame at 52:4052:40Frame at 52:4352:43Frame at 52:4852:48

Play from 52:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 60 · shots 319–322. 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 wearing light-colored uniform, hat, and suspenders; medium build visible, audible
  • man wearing light-colored uniform and head covering; medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The men are standing close together in a dim interior. [frame:1]
  • One man holds a bundle of sticks. [frame:2]
  • The men move slightly apart; one leans forward. [frame:3]
  • The men stand side by side, facing each other. [frame:4]
Also said
“See if the coast is clear.” 52:40 · “I don't want to see if the coast is clear.” 52:40
Seen
bundle of sticks [frame:2], light-colored uniforms [frame:1], hats/head coverings [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and uncertain; themes: uncertainty, reluctance, military or adventure setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, high-contrast lighting, static camera

Two men in light-colored uniforms and head coverings are inside a dimly lit structure, discussing their location and whether to check if the coast is clear. One man holds a bundle of sticks while they converse.

“I wonder where we are.” 52:33 · “Maybe some saloon outside the fort.” 52:36 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 52:36 (passage 52:32–52:50); US record: No renewal found

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