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The Flying Deuces · Beat 161 · permalink

Living room

53:29–53:48 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 53:3653:36Frame at 53:4653:46

Play from 53:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 61 · shots 327–328. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing light-colored loose-fitting clothes and a cap, medium build visible
  • partially visible person wearing dark pants, standing near doorway visible
Seen happening
  • A man enters the room and walks toward a table. [frame:1]
  • The man reaches the table and leans over it. [frame:2]
Also said
“May I come in?” 53:43
Seen
window with blinds [frame:1], curtains [frame:1], table with objects [frame:2], door with shutters [frame:2], round wall mirror [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: mildly comedic or absurd; themes: intrusion, miscommunication; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, theatrical staging

A man in light-colored clothing enters a room and moves toward a table near a window. Another person is partially visible near a doorway. The transcript includes fragmented phrases about birds and permission to enter.

“To the matter, I can start a bunch of the birds.” 53:30 · “Your left.” 53:42 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 53:36 (passage 53:29–53:48); US record: No renewal found

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