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The Flying Deuces · Beat 97 · permalink

Private office

35:37–35:49 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 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 35:4335:43

Play from 35:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 32 · shots 213–213. 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 bowler hat and suit, standing behind desk visible
  • man in bowler hat and suit, leaning over desk visible
Seen happening
  • One man stands behind a desk while another leans over it. [frame:1]
Also said
“Well, you've got to be careful about those things.” 35:47
Seen
suitcase [frame:1], desk [frame:1], bowler hats [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dryly humorous; themes: absurdity, bureaucratic satire; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast studio lighting, period costume

Two men in bowler hats are in an office; one stands behind a desk while the other leans over it. A suitcase is visible on the floor, and dialogue suggests a sarcastic remark about smoking something.

“Now he can put that in his pipe and smoke it.” 35:40 · “Maybe he doesn't smoke a pipe. Well, whatever. He smokes it.” 35:43 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 35:43 (passage 35:37–35:49); US record: No renewal found

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