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Phantom of Chinatown · Beat 11 · permalink

Theatre

2:47–2:49 Registered 1940

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 5 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 2:482:48

Play from 2:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 10 · shots 16–16. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
theatre (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and tie, standing at podium, holding microphone visible
  • man in dark suit and tie, seated in front row, balding visible
  • woman in dark dress with white collar, seated in front row visible
  • man in dark suit and bow tie, seated in front row visible
  • man in dark suit and tie, seated in front row, older, white hair visible
Seen
microphone [frame:1], podium [frame:1], chairs [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn; themes: formal gathering, public address; style notes: medium shot, high contrast lighting, formal composition

A group of formally dressed people sit in rows in a dimly lit hall. One man stands at a podium at the back, holding a microphone.

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 Phantom of Chinatown (1940) at 2:48 (passage 2:47–2:49); US record: No renewal found

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