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The Flying Deuces · Beat 6 · permalink

Restaurant

2:54–3:17 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; 7 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 2:582:58Frame at 3:013:01Frame at 3:093:09Frame at 3:163:16

Play from 2:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 3 · shots 10–13. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
restaurant (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and bowler hat visible
  • man in dark suit and bowler hat, carrying a bottle visible
  • woman in maid outfit with apron and headscarf visible
  • woman in dark dress with white collar visible
  • woman in light dress with patterned shawl visible
  • woman in dark dress with lace head covering visible
  • Mr. Harvey (named at t:3:16): unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • Two men in hats enter a room with checkered tablecloths. [frame:1]
  • A woman in a maid outfit stands behind a counter. [frame:2]
  • One man ascends stairs while the other remains at the bottom. [frame:3]
  • Three women in period costumes stand together near a table. [frame:4]
Also said
“Come on.” 3:03 · “Mr. Harvey!” 3:16
Seen
checkered tablecloth, bottle, stairs, counter, table
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comedic and bustling; themes: social interaction, service setting, period costume; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static camera, stage-like lighting

Two men in hats enter a room and ascend stairs while a woman in a maid outfit is seen in a kitchen; later, three women in period costumes stand together. A voice calls out 'Mr. Harvey!' during the sequence.

“Come here.” 2:58 · “Hey!” 3:03 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 2:58 (passage 2:54–3:17); US record: No renewal found

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