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The Flying Deuces · Beat 203 · permalink

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58:53–59:06 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; 3 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 58:5458:54Frame at 58:5658:56Frame at 59:0159:01

Play from 58:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 83 · shots 403–405. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man wearing a headscarf and a dark uniform with buttons visible
  • person wearing a light-colored headscarf and loose garment, using a tool visible
  • person wearing a headscarf and light garment, engaged in a struggle visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a headscarf and uniform looks alarmed. [frame:1]
  • A person uses a tool that emits sparks. [frame:2]
  • Two people in headscarves struggle in a dark space. [frame:3]
Seen
headscarf [frame:1], uniform with buttons [frame:1], tool emitting sparks [frame:2], loose garment [frame:2], dark interior space [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and chaotic; themes: conflict, improvised repair, physical struggle; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, medium and close shots, black-and-white film stock

A man in a headscarf and uniform reacts with alarm while another person uses a tool emitting sparks. Two figures in headscarves then struggle in a dimly lit interior space. No names, time of day, or period are established in this beat.

“Let's cover up the hole.” 58:53 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 58:54 (passage 58:53–59:06); US record: No renewal found

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