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The Flying Deuces · Beat 9 · permalink

Living room

4:31–4:56 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; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 4:434:43

Play from 4:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 3 · shots 18–18. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man standing, wearing dark suit and tie, medium build visible, audible
  • Fickham (named at t:4:39): man seated, wearing vest and bow tie, medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The seated man reacts with surprise. [frame:1]
Also said
“Why don't you ask her now that we can all go out and celebrate? That's just what I intended to do. We'll get cleaned up and I'll go down and pop the question. That's a good idea. You sure we'll have a lot of fun now? You sure can, Fickham. I'll have a song.” 4:39 · “Oh, my God.” 4:53
Seen
armchair [frame:1], window with curtains [frame:1], vest and bow tie [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted with a moment of surprise; themes: marriage proposal, comedy, friendship; style notes: medium shot, static camera, studio lighting, black-and-white film

Two men are in a room; one stands while the other sits, and they discuss marriage and celebration. One man says he will ask the woman soon and plans to celebrate afterward, prompting a reaction of surprise.

“Boy, it sure is a load.” 4:32 · “Say, when are you going to get married? Just as soon as I ask her.” 4:35 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 4:43 (passage 4:31–4:56); US record: No renewal found

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