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Killers from Space · Beat 127 · permalink

Laboratory

1:07:44–1:08:18 Released 1954; registered 1953

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 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:07:471:07:47Frame at 1:07:521:07:52Frame at 1:08:051:08:05Frame at 1:08:171:08:17

Play from 1:07:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 82 · shots 218–222. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(laboratory, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, medium build, short hair visible, audible
  • man in light shirt, mustache, medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark suit gestures toward a control panel while speaking to a man in a light shirt. [frame:1]
  • The man in the dark suit grabs the man in the light shirt by the arm near the control panel. [frame:2]
  • The man in the light shirt looks down with a concerned expression. [frame:3]
  • Two silhouetted figures stand before a door marked 'FIRE EXIT'. [frame:4]
Also said
“Next. Go on. That'll turn the power off for a hundred miles. Do as I say.” 68:08 · “Here it is.” 68:16
Seen
control panel with switches and gauges [frame:1], wall clocks [frame:1], fire exit sign [frame:4]
On screen
FIRE EXIT
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: coercion, technology under threat, authority vs. compliance; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, high-contrast lighting, static camera

Two men are in a control room with many switches and gauges; one man in a dark suit pressures another man in a light shirt to cut power. The scene ends with a view of a door marked 'FIRE EXIT' as two silhouetted figures stand before it.

“Come on, show me those switches. Come on. All right.” 67:47 · “Cut that power. Now look, mister, be reasonable. I said cut it.” 67:50 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 Killers from Space (1954) at 1:07:47 (passage 1:07:44–1:08:18); US record: No renewal found

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