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The Flying Deuces · Beat 90 · permalink

Road

33:05–33:19 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; 3 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 33:0733:07Frame at 33:1233:12Frame at 33:1433:14Frame at 33:1733:17

Play from 33:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 29 · shots 192–197. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, medium build, wearing light-colored work shirt and cap, standing near truck visible, audible
  • man, medium build, wearing light-colored work shirt and cap, holding a tire in frame 2, later standing beside p1 in frame 3 visible
  • man, medium build, wearing light-colored work shirt and cap, standing beside p1 in frame 3 visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands near a truck loaded with produce. [frame:1]
  • A man holds a tire and speaks to another man. [frame:2]
  • Two men stand together near the truck, one holding a tire. [frame:3]
  • A man stands alone near the truck, looking forward. [frame:4]
Also said
“I beg your pardon?” 33:15 · “You heard...” 33:16
Seen
truck [frame:1], tire [frame:2], produce [frame:1], work shirts [frame:2], caps [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual, slightly comedic; themes: workplace humor, manual labor, everyday tasks; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, static framing

Two men in work attire stand near a truck loaded with produce; one speaks to the other about washing and preparing vegetables. The setting appears to be outdoors during the day, with no interior visible.

“Hey, lugs.” 33:08 · “When you get through with that washing, the cook wants you to manicure them vegetables for tomorrow's stew.” 33:10 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 33:07 (passage 33:05–33:19); US record: No renewal found

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