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26:15–29:15 Released 1954; registered 1953

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 27:3927:39Frame at 29:0929:09

Play from 26:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 41 · shots 127–128. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • only eyes visible, appears to be male, in shadow visible
  • Dr. Douglas P. Martin (named at t:26:40): not visible audible
  • Walter Roberts (named at t:28:54): not visible audible
Seen happening
  • A two-tone coupe is parked outdoors at night. [frame:1]
  • A close-up shows a person's eyes in shadow. [frame:2]
Also said
“I'll get you.” 27:54 · “66 and beach, ambulance en route, car 17, code 7, Walter Roberts, suspect may be on. Repeating, go through to all units.” 28:54
Seen
two-tone coupe, license plate 1W67713
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and suspenseful; themes: pursuit, missing person, radio communication, nocturnal setting; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, tight close-up on eyes, static wide shot of car, radio dispatches create urgency

A two-tone coupe is shown parked in a dark outdoor setting while radio dispatches describe a missing person and a vehicle license plate. A close-up shows a person's eyes in shadow, and a voice asks about an object placed under a rock.

“Dr. Douglas P. is in Paul Martin. Male cocaine, 32 years of age, height 6 foot 3. Weight 195 pounds. Color of hair blonde, color of eyes blue. Last seen driving away. License number 1W67713.” 26:40 · “Dr. Martin. What are you doing with this? Any special reason for placing it under this rock?” 27:15 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 27:39 (passage 26:15–29:15); US record: No renewal found

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