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The Flying Deuces · Beat 61 · permalink

Courtyard

22:44–23:23 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; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 22:5122:51Frame at 23:0723:07Frame at 23:1923:19

Play from 22:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 115–117. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
courtyard (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • uniformed officer, seen from behind, walking toward formation visible
  • group of uniformed soldiers in formation, some with head coverings visible
  • uniformed officer facing p1, possibly saluting visible
  • unseen speaker giving commands audible
Seen happening
  • Soldiers stand in formation in a courtyard as an officer walks toward them. [frame:1]
  • An officer walks toward a line of soldiers with a flag and palm trees in the background. [frame:2]
  • Two officers face each other while soldiers stand at attention behind them. [frame:3]
Also said
“Close order belt. The best patrol.” 23:17 · “Very well, sir.” 23:19
Seen
flag, palm trees, military uniforms, building with arches, stairs
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, tense; themes: military discipline, command hierarchy, ceremonial order; style notes: wide shots, static camera, high-contrast black and white, military staging

A military parade or drill is underway in an open courtyard with uniformed personnel and a flag. Commands are given audibly, including 'Take command, Captain' and 'Close order belt,' suggesting a formal military exercise or inspection.

“Take command, Captain.” 23:14 · “Lieutenant?” 23:16 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 22:51 (passage 22:44–23:23); US record: No renewal found

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