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The Flying Deuces · Beat 51 · permalink

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19:28–19:37 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 19:3319:33

Play from 19:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 21 · shots 92–92. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and bowler hat, holding a shovel visible
  • Hank (named at t:19:30): man in lighter suit and bowler hat, facing p1 visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand facing each other in a stone-walled room, one holding a shovel. [frame:1]
Seen
shovel, bowler hats, suits
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: comedy, suspense, mistaken identity; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, studio-lit, static framing

Two men in suits stand in a stone-walled room; one holds a shovel. One man is addressed as 'Hank' and they discuss not jumping into a location because someone is watching.

“Hank.” 19:30 · “We can't jump in there. There's a fellow watching us.” 19:31 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 19:33 (passage 19:28–19:37); US record: No renewal found

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