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The Flying Deuces · Beat 2 · permalink

Cafe

1:04–2:19 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 1:091:09Frame at 1:161:16Frame at 1:251:25Frame at 1:561:56

Play from 1:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: cutting rhythm changes. Sequence 2 · shots 1–4. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
cafe (restaurant, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • man wearing a bowler hat and dark suit, seated at table visible, audible
  • man wearing a top hat and light-colored suit, seated at table visible, audible
  • man in background wearing a hat, partially visible visible
Also said
“We've got to go back or we'll lose our job at the fish market in Des Moines.” 1:53 · “Another glass of milk.” 2:06
Seen
triumphal arch, cafe table with glass and straws, bowler hat, top hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted tension; themes: departure, decision, comedy of misunderstanding; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, outdoor cafe setting with natural framing by trees and architecture

Two men sit at a table in an outdoor cafe, discussing plans to leave for a boat that sails at midnight; one announces he intends to stay, prompting concern from the other about losing their job. The setting includes a view of a triumphal arch and other patrons in the background.

“I've decided to stay a while.” 1:47 · “I may never go back.” 1:51 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 1:09 (passage 1:04–2:19); US record: No renewal found

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