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The Flying Deuces · Beat 174 · permalink

Private office

55:30–55:33 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote 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 55:3155:31

Play from 55:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 69 · shots 348–348. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark military-style uniform with medals, light trousers, dark boots, medium build, appears middle-aged visible
  • woman in light-colored dress, light hair, medium build, appears middle-aged visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand in a doorway; the woman holds the man's arm. [frame:1]
  • The man appears startled or alarmed. [frame:1]
Seen
doorway with shutters [frame:1], oval-framed painting on wall [frame:1], small table with vase [frame:1], decorative plant or tree [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: alarm, interruption, military presence; style notes: medium shot, black-and-white, studio lighting, static camera

A man in a military-style uniform and a woman in a light dress stand in a doorway of an interior room; the man appears startled as the woman holds his arm. A line of dialogue 'Look out.' is spoken during this beat.

“Look out.” 55:30 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 55:31 (passage 55:30–55:33); US record: No renewal found

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