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Killers from Space · Beat 36 · permalink

Laboratory

11:01–11:04 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 name 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 11:0211:02

Play from 11:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 84–84. 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
  • person wearing a light-colored long-sleeve shirt, seated, viewed from behind visible
Seen happening
  • A person reaches toward a control panel with switches. [frame:1]
Seen
control panel with switches [frame:1], chair [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: focused, technical; themes: technology, control, scientific setting; style notes: medium shot, black and white, high-contrast lighting, static framing

A person in a light shirt is seated at a control panel with switches, reaching toward it. The setting appears to be an interior space with equipment, possibly a laboratory or control room.

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 11:02 (passage 11:01–11:04); US record: No renewal found

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