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The Flying Deuces · Beat 33 · permalink

Private office

10:44–11:11 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 10:5410:54Frame at 11:0811:08

Play from 10:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 12 · shots 58–59. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, heavyset, mustache, wearing dark suit and bow tie visible, audible
  • man, wearing dark suit, bowler hat, and bow tie visible, audible
Also said
“Well, I guess we'd better be going, eh? Come on, we'll...” 10:58 · “You go ahead.” 11:01
Seen
round table with checkered cloth [frame:1], bowler hat [frame:1], stairs in background [frame:1], shelves with bottles [frame:1], dining utensils and bowl on table [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: resigned, conversational; themes: parting, reluctance, dialogue-driven; style notes: medium two-shot and close-up, high-contrast studio lighting, static camera, period costume

Two men are seated at a table in a room with stairs and shelves; one speaks while the other listens. The dialogue suggests a parting, with one man urging the other to go ahead while he remains.

“Well, that's that.” 10:53 · “No use crying over split milk.” 10:55 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 10:54 (passage 10:44–11:11); US record: No renewal found

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