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Phantom of Chinatown · Beat 137 · permalink

Private office

58:47–58:49 Registered 1940

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: visible event not seen. 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 58:4858:48

Play from 58:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 101 · shots 263–263. 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
  • older man with white hair, wearing dark clothing visible
  • man with bald head, wearing light-colored shirt visible
  • man in dark clothing, partially obscured, holding p1 visible
Seen happening
  • A man in dark clothing holds an older man in a chokehold from behind. [frame:1]
  • A bald man stands behind them watching. [frame:1]
Seen
desk [frame:1], lamp [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, power imbalance; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast lighting, static camera

A man in dark clothing holds an older man with white hair in a chokehold from behind. Another man with a bald head and light shirt stands behind them, watching.

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 58:48 (passage 58:47–58:49); US record: No renewal found

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