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Phantom of Chinatown · Beat 139 · permalink

Bedroom

59:00–59:03 Registered 1940

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

Frame at 59:0259:02

Play from 59:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 103 · shots 265–265. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a fedora and dark suit, standing visible
  • man lying on floor, wearing dark clothes, motionless visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a fedora stands near a bed while another man lies on the floor. [frame:1]
Seen
bed [frame:1], lamp [frame:1], fedora [frame:1], dark suit [frame:1], window with blinds [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, suspense; style notes: high-contrast lighting, static medium shot, shadows prominent

A man in a fedora stands near a bed while another man lies motionless on the floor. The room contains a bed and a lamp, with shadows cast on the wall.

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 59:02 (passage 59:00–59:03); US record: No renewal found

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