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Phantom of Chinatown · Beat 23 · permalink

Outdoor ruins

5:49–5:59 Registered 1940

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name 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 5:555:55

Play from 5:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 20 · shots 52–52. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
outdoor ruins (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a long coat, crouched over a stone block visible
Seen happening
  • A person uses a tool on a stone block. [frame:1]
Seen
stone block [frame:1], hand tool [frame:1], wide-brimmed hat [frame:1], long coat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: uncertain; themes: uncertainty, manual labor; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, natural lighting with strong shadows

A person in a hat and coat is visible outdoors, working with a tool on a stone block. Two lines of dialogue express uncertainty.

“I'm not sure.” 5:51 · “I'm not.” 5:54 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 5:55 (passage 5:49–5:59); US record: No renewal found

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