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The Flying Deuces · Beat 27 · permalink

Bar

8:32–8:39 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name 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 8:358:35

Play from 8:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 10 · shots 45–45. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, middle-aged, heavyset, wearing a dark suit, bowler hat, and bow tie visible
Seen happening
  • man gestures with his right hand while seated at a table [frame:1]
Seen
bowler hat [frame:1], bow tie [frame:1], table with checkered cloth [frame:1], bar counter and bottles in background [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comical or contemplative, suggested by the man's expression and gesture; themes: comedy, everyday setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, studio lighting with soft shadows, static camera

A man in a bowler hat and suit sits at a table in a dimly lit interior, gesturing with his right hand. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 8:35 (passage 8:32–8:39); US record: No renewal found

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