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The Flying Deuces · Beat 222 · permalink

Airfield

1:03:08–1:03:28 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:03:091:03:09Frame at 1:03:131:03:13Frame at 1:03:171:03:17Frame at 1:03:231:03:23

Play from 1:03:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 93 · shots 461–465. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
airfield (airport, exterior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man in light-colored pilot uniform and cap, visible in vehicle interior visible
  • man in light-colored pilot uniform and cap, visible in vehicle interior visible
  • group of people in dark uniforms, running on airfield visible
  • person in pilot's cap, seen from behind inside vehicle visible
Seen happening
  • Two men in pilot uniforms sit inside a vehicle, one holding a steering wheel. [frame:1]
  • A biplane is shown flying against a cloudy sky. [frame:2]
  • A group of people in uniform runs across an airfield toward hangars. [frame:3]
  • A person in a pilot's cap is seen from behind inside a vehicle. [frame:4]
Seen
biplane, steering wheel, hangars, pilot uniforms, pilot cap
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and hurried; themes: aviation, military activity, urgent movement; style notes: static medium shots and wide exterior shots with high-contrast black-and-white lighting

Two men in pilot uniforms are inside a vehicle, followed by an exterior shot of a biplane in flight, then a group of people running on an airfield near hangars, and finally a close-up of a person in a pilot's cap from behind. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this sequence.

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 1:03:09 (passage 1:03:08–1:03:28); US record: No renewal found

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