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The Flying Deuces · Beat 26 · permalink

Restaurant

8:20–8:32 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 8:268:26

Play from 8:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 9 · shots 44–44. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
restaurant (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a bowler hat and formal suit, seated at table visible
  • man wearing a bowler hat and formal suit, seated at table, facing p1 visible
Seen happening
  • One man gestures with his hand while speaking to the other. [frame:1]
Seen
checkered tablecloth [frame:1], dining table with plates and glassware [frame:1], bowler hats [frame:1], stairs in background [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comedic; themes: social interaction, formal dining, physical comedy; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, staged interior

Two men in formal attire sit at a table with a checkered tablecloth; one gestures while speaking. The setting appears to be an indoor dining area with stairs visible in the background.

“Throw it over your shoulder.” 8:24 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 8:26 (passage 8:20–8:32); US record: No renewal found

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