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Killers from Space · Beat 15 · permalink

Vehicle interior

4:10–4:25 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). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 4:144:14Frame at 4:204:20Frame at 4:234:23

Play from 4:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 8 · shots 49–51. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • pilot wearing helmet, goggles, and oxygen mask visible
  • pilot wearing helmet and goggles, seated at controls visible
Seen happening
  • Two pilots are seated in a cockpit with a cloudy sky visible through the canopy. [frame:1]
  • A radiation meter is shown with its needle indicating a high level. [frame:2]
  • A close-up of a pilot's face in helmet and mask, looking upward. [frame:3]
Also said
“What's that thing shining below?” 4:22
Seen
pilot helmet with goggles and mask, radiation meter, aircraft cockpit canopy, cloudy sky
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: radiation danger, pilot observation, unidentified aerial phenomenon; style notes: black-and-white, tight cockpit framing, high-contrast lighting on pilot's face, close-up on instrument panel

Two pilots in a cockpit observe a bright object below while discussing radiation levels and maintaining distance from a column. A close-up of a radiation meter and a pilot's helmeted face are shown.

“We'll have to keep at least two miles from the center of the column.” 4:14 · “Radiation was too strong.” 4:17 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 4:14 (passage 4:10–4:25); US record: No renewal found

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