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The Flying Deuces · Beat 163 · permalink

Living room

53:50–54:10 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 53:5253:52Frame at 53:5653:56Frame at 54:0054:00Frame at 54:0654:06

Play from 53:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 61 · shots 330–333. 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 in light-colored uniform, visible in frame 1 and 3 visible
  • Joseph (named at t:53:57): man in dark uniform, visible in frame 2 and 4 visible
  • man in light uniform and cap, visible in frame 3 visible
Seen happening
  • Two men in light uniforms enter a room through a doorway. [frame:1]
  • A man in a dark uniform stands near a door holding a white cloth. [frame:2]
  • Two men in light uniforms peer through a dark space, one holding a cloth to his face. [frame:3]
  • A man in a dark uniform turns away from the camera, hand on hip. [frame:4]
Also said
“Are you all right?” 54:00 · “- Good, come on, guys.” 54:01
Seen
door, vase with flowers, wall painting, decorative vase
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and reactive; themes: military or uniformed personnel in domestic setting, sudden interruption or discovery; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, staged interior set

Two men in uniform enter a room and react to something off-screen; one calls out 'Joseph!' while another checks on him. A man in a dark uniform is seen moving through the room, interacting with the door and furniture.

“Joseph!” 53:57 · “- Yeah, I see this.” 53:58 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 53:52 (passage 53:50–54:10); US record: No renewal found

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