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The Flying Deuces · Beat 178 · permalink

Courtyard

56:01–56:24 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 56:0756:07Frame at 56:1656:16Frame at 56:2156:21Frame at 56:2356:23

Play from 56:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 70 · shots 355–358. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
courtyard (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in military uniform with peaked cap, speaking visible, audible
  • man in military uniform with peaked cap, standing beside p1 visible
  • soldiers in uniform with white head coverings, seen from behind or in formation visible
Seen happening
  • A military officer addresses soldiers in a courtyard. [frame:1]
  • The officer speaks with urgency, flanked by two other officers. [frame:2]
  • Soldiers are seen near a gate, suggesting a search is underway. [frame:3]
  • The officer continues speaking, with soldiers in the background. [frame:4]
Also said
“Be sure all gates are closed and make a thorough search of the entire barracks.” 56:17 · “Whoever brings tobacco will be given the reward of six weeks furlough.” 56:20
Seen
military uniforms, peaked caps, courtyard with arches and gates, white head coverings on soldiers
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: authoritative and tense; themes: military discipline, escape, reward system; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots of officers, wide shot of courtyard, high-contrast lighting

A military officer addresses a group of soldiers in a courtyard, ordering a search after prisoners escaped. He offers a reward of six weeks furlough for anyone who brings tobacco.

“They stink detents on all of you.” 56:12 · “The men who would be shot this morning have escaped.” 56:14 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 56:07 (passage 56:01–56:24); US record: No renewal found

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