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The Flying Deuces · Beat 85 · permalink

Outdoor area with laundry

31:26–31:52 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 31:2831:28Frame at 31:3231:32Frame at 31:3831:38Frame at 31:4931:49

Play from 31:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 29 · shots 171–176. 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, hands on face, eyes closed visible, audible
  • Ruby (named at t:31:45): not visible mentioned
Seen happening
  • Man p1 sits with hands on his face, eyes closed. [frame:1]
  • Man p1 remains seated with hands on face. [frame:2]
  • Man p2 stands, facing p1, wearing light shirt and cap. [frame:3]
  • Man p2 sits, looking toward p1, mouth open as if speaking. [frame:4]
Also said
“Ruby left.” 31:45 · “I can see her now.” 31:50
Seen
laundry [frame:1], cap [frame:1], light shirt [frame:1], fence or rack [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: melancholic; themes: nostalgia, romantic loss, comedy of despair; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film stock

Two men in light shirts and caps are in an outdoor area with laundry; one is seated with hands on his face, the other stands nearby. One man speaks about a woman named Ruby, describing her appearance while the other responds.

“Now don't think of anything.” 31:29 · “I know it's tough to forget a swell gal like that.” 31:33 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 31:28 (passage 31:26–31:52); US record: No renewal found

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