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Phantom of Chinatown · Beat 35 · permalink

Theatre

8:59–9:03 Registered 1940

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 9:019:01

Play from 8:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 29 · shots 73–73. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
theatre (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in suit and hat, standing at podium visible
  • audience members, mostly seen from behind, in dark suits visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands at a podium addressing an audience. [frame:1]
  • An audience watches a film projection showing a desert scene with riders. [frame:1]
Seen
projection screen [frame:1], podium [frame:1], audience chairs [frame:1], film projection (desert with riders) [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, instructional; themes: presentation, cinema, audience; style notes: medium shot from audience perspective, high contrast black and white, static framing

A man stands at a podium in front of an audience watching a film projection. The projected image shows a desert landscape with figures on horseback.

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 9:01 (passage 8:59–9:03); US record: No renewal found

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