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The Flying Deuces · Beat 55 · permalink

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21:48–21:55 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name 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 21:5121:51

Play from 21:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 21 · shots 108–108. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, heavy build, wearing dark suit and bowler hat visible
Seen happening
  • man splashes water with his hands [frame:1]
Seen
bowler hat [frame:1], dark suit [frame:1], water [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comic; themes: physical comedy, water-based slapstick; style notes: medium close-up, high-contrast black-and-white, studio lighting

A man in a dark suit and bowler hat is visible in water, splashing with his hands. 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 21:51 (passage 21:48–21:55); US record: No renewal found

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