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Killers from Space · Beat 132 · permalink

Control room

1:09:04–1:09:20 Released 1954; registered 1953

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:09:121:09:12

Play from 1:09:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 82 · shots 231–231. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
control_room (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark uniform, visible visible
  • woman in light coat, visible visible
  • man in suit and tie, visible visible
  • man in dark suit, partially visible, facing away visible
Seen
control panel with clocks and gauges [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: countdown, scientific monitoring, group tension; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white, studio lighting, mid-century control room set

A group of people stand in front of a control panel with clocks and gauges; one person counts aloud from one to eight. No names are spoken, and no specific time of day or historical period is indicated.

“Now. One. Two. Three. Four. Five.” 69:05 · “Five six seven eight” 69:13 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 1:09:12 (passage 1:09:04–1:09:20); US record: No renewal found

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