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The Flying Deuces · Beat 175 · permalink

Bedroom

55:33–55:47 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 55:3755:37Frame at 55:4255:42Frame at 55:4555:45

Play from 55:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 69 · shots 349–351. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light-colored uniform with hat, medium build visible
  • man in dark military-style uniform with belt and insignia, medium build visible, audible
  • woman lying in bed, wearing light robe or nightgown visible
  • man in light-colored uniform with hat, heavier build visible
Seen happening
  • Two men in light uniforms stand beside a woman in bed. [frame:1]
  • A man in a dark uniform enters and speaks with an angry expression. [frame:2]
  • The man in the dark uniform confronts the two men in light uniforms beside the woman in bed. [frame:3]
Also said
“What will we say?” 55:43 · “You think of your story. I've got mine.” 55:44
Seen
bed [frame:1], curtains [frame:1], uniforms [frame:1], dark military-style uniform with belt [frame:2], shuttered door [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, deception, authority vs. subordinates; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, theatrical staging

Two men in light-colored uniforms stand beside a woman lying in bed while another man in a dark uniform enters and speaks. The transcript indicates a confrontation about an unexplained situation, with one man telling another to think of a story.

“Don't do that!” 55:37 · “What is the meaning of this?” 55:41 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 55:37 (passage 55:33–55:47); US record: No renewal found

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