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Phantom of Chinatown · Beat 22 · permalink

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5:33–5:49 Registered 1940

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 5:415:41

Play from 5:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 19 · shots 51–51. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man with white hair, wearing a dark jacket and light shirt, holding a large camera visible, audible
Seen
large camera on tripod [frame:1], stone wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or apologetic; themes: apology, filmmaking equipment, behind-the-scenes; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, high contrast lighting, static framing

A man is visible behind a large camera mounted on a tripod, positioned near a stone wall. He speaks an apology, saying 'I'm sorry.'

“I'm sorry.” 5:35 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.

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Frame from Phantom of Chinatown (1940) at 5:41 (passage 5:33–5:49); US record: No renewal found

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