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The Flying Deuces · Beat 181 · permalink

Tree

56:37–56:38 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 56:3756:37

Play from 56:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 72 · shots 361–361. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
tree (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a light-colored uniform and helmet, visible in upper part of tree visible
  • man wearing a dark hat and coat, partially obscured by leaves, visible in lower part of tree visible
Seen
tree with dense leaves [frame:1], military-style helmet [frame:1], uniform [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspenseful or comedic, given the unusual positioning in a tree; themes: absurdity, physical comedy, military farce; style notes: medium shot, black-and-white, high contrast lighting, static camera

Two men are visible in a tree; one is higher up and appears to be climbing or perched, while the other is lower and partially obscured by leaves. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 56:37 (passage 56:37–56:38); US record: No renewal found

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