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Killers from Space · Beat 133 · permalink

Laboratory

1:09:20–1:09:26 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). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 3 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 1:09:231:09:23

Play from 1:09:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 82 · shots 232–232. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
laboratory (laboratory, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, mid-20s to 30s, dark hair, wearing a light-colored coat with buttons visible
  • man, 40s to 50s, light hair, wearing a suit and tie visible
  • man, 30s to 40s, dark hair, wearing a suit and tie visible
Seen happening
  • A woman gestures toward a control panel while two men look on. [frame:1]
Seen
control panel [frame:1], clocks [frame:1], coats and suits [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: scientific control, team coordination, mid-century technology; style notes: medium shot, black-and-white, high-contrast lighting focused on characters, background filled with technical equipment

A woman in a light coat gestures toward a control panel while two men stand beside her in a room filled with monitors and clocks. The transcript contains the spoken line 'Over here' at 69:22.

“Over here” 69:22 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 1:09:23 (passage 1:09:20–1:09:26); US record: No renewal found

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