Ruin
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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 5:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 18 · shots 48–50. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- ruin (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man wearing pith helmet and light shirt, crouching visible
- John (named at t:5:30): man wearing dark shirt and light pants, standing visible
- Seen happening
- A man in a pith helmet crouches and examines a stone wall. [frame:1]
- Two men stand near a stone ruin; one is crouched, the other stands holding a bundle. [frame:2]
- Two men face each other in a stone ruin; one wears a pith helmet, the other a dark shirt. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “Come on, John.” 5:30 · “We must find the crypt.” 5:31
- Seen
- pith helmet [frame:1], stone wall with vegetation [frame:1], bundle or sack [frame:2]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and exploratory; themes: adventure, exploration, mystery; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, high contrast lighting, static camera
Two men in explorer-style clothing are in a stone ruin; one is crouched examining a wall while the other stands nearby. One man is addressed by the name John as they discuss finding a crypt.
“Amen.” 5:25 · “Come on.” 5:27 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.
Share
Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.
- Permalink
- always the current cut
- Permalink to this version
- warns if the beats are recut later
- Card image
- https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/Phantom_of_Chinatown_1940/b21.png
- Figure for a newsletter or page
- Cite