Beat 2
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 0:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: picture changes. Sequence 2 · shots 1–2. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Seen
- title card, title card
- On screen
- [{'text': "Screen Play by JOSEPH WEST\nOriginal Story RALPH BETTINSON\nBased on the 'JAMES LEE WONG' series\nin Collier's Magazine written by HUGH WILEY", 'frame': 1}, {'text': 'Director of Photography FRED JACKMAN, JR., A.S.C.\nFilm Editor . . . . . . . . . JACK OGILVIE\nArt Director . . . . . . . . . CHARLES CLAGUE\nSound Director . . . . . . . . . WILLIAM FOX\nInterior Decorations . . . . . . DAVID MILTON\nMusical Score . . . . . . . . . EDWARD KAY\nSpecial Effects JACKMAN PROCESS CORPORATION\nWestern Electric Mirrophonic Recording', 'frame': 2}]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and expository; themes: film credit presentation, studio-era production acknowledgment; style notes: static title cards with high-contrast black-and-white typography and shadowy decorative elements, typical of 1940s film credit sequences
The beat shows two title cards from the 1940 film PHANTOM OF CHINATOWN, listing credits for the screenplay, original story, director of photography, and other crew roles. No characters, actions, or settings are depicted beyond the text and decorative background elements.
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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