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The Flying Deuces · Beat 89 · permalink

Field

32:42–33:05 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 3 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 32:4332:43Frame at 32:4932:49Frame at 32:5232:52Frame at 33:0233:02

Play from 32:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 29 · shots 186–191. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:4
People
  • man with mustache, wearing dark uniform and cap visible
  • man in light-colored uniform and cap, standing near cart visible
  • man in light-colored uniform and cap, standing near cart visible
Seen happening
  • A man in uniform looks upward. [frame:1]
  • Several men in light uniforms stand around a cart with supplies. [frame:3]
  • A truck is parked next to a large pile of debris. [frame:4]
Seen
uniform, cart with supplies, truck, pile of debris
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: military activity, confrontation; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups and wide shots, natural outdoor lighting

A man in uniform is shown in close-up, followed by a scene with several men in light-colored uniforms around a cart, and a final shot of a truck near a large pile of debris. One line of dialogue is spoken during this sequence.

“You'll hear of this later!” 32:49 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 32:43 (passage 32:42–33:05); US record: No renewal found

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