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32:25–32:42 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 32:2632:26Frame at 32:2932:29Frame at 32:3432:34Frame at 32:3932:39

Play from 32:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 29 · shots 182–185. 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 in dark uniform and cap, standing visible
  • man in light shirt and cap, seated with hands on face visible
  • man in light shirt and cap, standing and approaching visible
Seen happening
  • A man in uniform stands behind a seated man who has his hands on his face. [frame:1]
  • The seated man covers his face with both hands while the standing man looks on. [frame:2]
  • The standing man in uniform leans slightly toward the seated man. [frame:3]
  • A third man in light clothing approaches and stands near the table, speaking to the others. [frame:4]
Also said
“Didn't I tell you to quit that?” 32:36
Seen
wooden table, wooden crates, barrel, uniforms and caps
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: conflict, military setting, interpersonal friction; style notes: medium shots, static camera, high-contrast black-and-white lighting

Two men in uniform interact at an outdoor table; one sits with hands on face while the other stands nearby. A third man in light clothing approaches and speaks to them, as indicated by the transcript.

“Hey, Ollie.” 32:30 · “If you don't stop bothering me, I'm going to punch you in the nose.” 32:31 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 32:26 (passage 32:25–32:42); US record: No renewal found

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