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The Flying Deuces · Beat 94 · permalink

Private office

34:41–35:23 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; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 34:5334:53Frame at 35:1335:13

Play from 34:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 29 · shots 209–210. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and bowler hat, carrying suitcase, standing visible
  • man in dark suit and bowler hat, seated at desk, holding paper visible, audible
Seen happening
  • One man stands with a suitcase near a doorway; another man is visible in the background. [frame:1]
  • One man sits at a desk with a globe and papers; another man stands beside him holding a paper. [frame:2]
Also said
“Just leave him a PS. Good enough for him.” 35:04 · “I'm going to go.” 35:07
Seen
suitcase, desk, globe, paper, bowler hats
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: mildly exasperated; themes: absence, bureaucratic delay, male camaraderie; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, minimal set dressing

Two men in bowler hats are in an office; one stands with a suitcase while the other sits at a desk. One man speaks about leaving a note for someone who is not present, then says he is going.

“What's the big idea? Keep us waiting.” 34:46 · “You know what? What? He's not here. Well, of course he's not here. Well, let's go look for him. Look nothing. I'll leave him a note. Oh, I wouldn't bother to leave him a note.” 34:55 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 34:53 (passage 34:41–35:23); US record: No renewal found

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