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Killers from Space · Beat 23 · permalink

Private office

5:09–5:15 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; 2 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 5:125:12

Play from 5:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 61–61. 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 light-colored uniform shirt with shoulder insignia, short dark hair, medium build visible, audible
  • person in background, back to camera, wearing light shirt visible
Seen
microphone, control panel with dials and switches, desk, uniform shirt with shoulder insignia
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, procedural; themes: military communication, command center, radio protocol; style notes: medium close-up, high-contrast black-and-white, studio lighting, static camera

A man in a uniform sits at a desk with a microphone, responding to a radio call. The background shows a control panel and another person working.

“Tar-baby 2 from base.” 5:10 · “Come in, Tar Baby 2.” 5:12 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 5:12 (passage 5:09–5:15); US record: No renewal found

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