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The Flying Deuces · Beat 84 · permalink

Outdoor area with laundry

31:09–31:26 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 31:1331:13Frame at 31:2231:22

Play from 31:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 29 · shots 169–170. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
outdoor area with laundry (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing light shirt and cap, seated, mouth open as if speaking visible, audible
  • man wearing light shirt and cap, standing, facing p1 visible
Also said
“And I think of nothing.” 31:15 · “Why don't you take a whirl at it?” 31:22
Seen
laundry hanging on lines, cap, light shirt, bucket or container
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual and conversational; themes: relaxation, suggestion, everyday life; style notes: medium shots, black-and-white, natural outdoor lighting, static camera

Two men in light shirts and caps are in an outdoor setting with laundry hanging behind them; one speaks about relaxing and thinking of nothing while the other listens and responds. No names are spoken, and no indoor or time-of-day indicators are visible.

“Well, I know if it was me, I'd sit down and relax.” 31:09 · “I close my eyes and I concentrate.” 31:12 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 31:13 (passage 31:09–31:26); US record: No renewal found

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