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The Flying Deuces · Beat 3 · permalink

Living room

2:19–2:40 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 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 2:202:20Frame at 2:312:31

Play from 2:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 2 · shots 5–6. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man, heavyset, mustache, bowler hat, dark suit, bow tie visible
  • Ollie (named at t:2:34): woman, dark hair, period dress, seated at table visible, audible
  • woman, dark hair, period dress, standing behind p2 visible
  • woman, dark hair, period dress, standing to left of p2 visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a bowler hat and mustache is shown in a close-up. [frame:1]
  • Three women in period costumes are gathered around a table; one reads a note. [frame:2]
Also said
“I” 2:21 · “Oh.” 2:30
Seen
bowler hat, bow tie, note, table, period dresses
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted; themes: romantic gesture, comedy, period setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, studio lighting, period costume

A man in a bowler hat and mustache is shown in a close-up, followed by a scene with three women in period costumes around a table. One woman reads a note aloud while the others look on. The transcript includes a short poem addressed to 'Ollie.'

“Roses are red, candy is sweet,” 2:31 · “This is something I sent you to eat. Ollie.” 2:34 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 2:20 (passage 2:19–2:40); US record: No renewal found

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