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The Flying Deuces · Beat 93 · permalink

Courtyard

34:05–34:41 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 34:1734:17Frame at 34:3634:36

Play from 34:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 29 · shots 207–208. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
courtyard (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in tuxedo, bow tie, carrying suitcase visible
  • man in tuxedo, bow tie, carrying suitcase visible
  • man in uniform, saluting visible
  • man in dark coat, standing visible
  • unspecified, speaking voice audible
Seen happening
  • Two men in tuxedos walk outside carrying suitcases. [frame:1]
  • A guard salutes while standing near two other men in a smoky area. [frame:2]
Also said
“three cents a day.” 34:21 · “Oh, my God.” 34:37
Seen
suitcases [frame:1], tuxedos [frame:1], uniform [frame:2], smoke or fog [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comic tension; themes: escape, confrontation, absurd authority; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, high-contrast lighting, theatrical staging

Two men in tuxedos carrying suitcases walk outside a building; later, a guard salutes as another man stands nearby in a smoky, indistinct setting. A voice orders guards to arrest two people, and someone exclaims 'Oh, my God.'

“Gee, I'm sure glad to get out of this joint. Me too.” 34:09 · “I will go over to that comorbid guy and tell him we are through. And at the same time, I'll give him a piece of my mind. I don't blame you.” 34:14 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 34:17 (passage 34:05–34:41); US record: No renewal found

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