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The Flying Deuces · Beat 204 · permalink

Jail

59:06–59:25 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 59:0859:08Frame at 59:1259:12Frame at 59:1859:18Frame at 59:2459:24

Play from 59:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 83 · shots 406–409. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
jail (jail, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • wearing light-colored uniform and hat, medium build visible
  • wearing light-colored uniform, partially obscured by shadow visible
Seen happening
  • A figure in uniform walks toward a large cylindrical object. [frame:3]
  • The figure in uniform turns and gestures toward the second figure. [frame:4]
Seen
cylindrical object, barred window, uniforms
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and shadowy; themes: confinement, authority, mystery; style notes: high-contrast lighting, deep shadows, static camera framing, medium shot scale

Two figures in light-colored uniforms are seen in a dim, enclosed space with barred windows; one figure moves toward a large cylindrical object while the other remains stationary. The setting appears to be a prison or detention area, with minimal lighting and heavy shadows.

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 59:08 (passage 59:06–59:25); US record: No renewal found

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