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The Flying Deuces · Beat 188 · permalink

Street

56:51–57:18 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; 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 56:5256:52Frame at 56:5756:57Frame at 57:0957:09

Play from 56:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 75 · shots 368–370. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • cloaked figure with head covering, moving rapidly visible
  • cloaked figure with head covering, walking away from camera visible
  • cloaked figure with head covering, walking away from camera visible
  • unspecified, audible only audible
Seen happening
  • Figures in cloaks and head coverings move rapidly through a street. [frame:1]
  • A chaotic scene with figures running and one falling. [frame:2]
  • Two cloaked figures walk away from the camera toward a fountain. [frame:3]
Seen
cloaks and head coverings [frame:1], fountain [frame:3], palm trees [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: chaotic and urgent; themes: chaos, flight, anonymity; style notes: black-and-white, wide shots capturing motion and crowd dynamics, high-contrast lighting

A chaotic street scene unfolds with figures in cloaks and head coverings moving rapidly; one person is heard exclaiming. Two cloaked individuals are seen walking away from the camera toward a fountain.

“Oh, my God.” 56:53 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 56:52 (passage 56:51–57:18); US record: No renewal found

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