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Phantom of Chinatown · Beat 38 · permalink

Theatre

9:42–9:44 Registered 1940

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 9:439:43

Play from 9:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 32 · shots 80–80. 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 dark suit, standing at podium, back to camera visible
  • man in dark suit, seated in front row, facing forward visible
  • woman in dark dress and hat, seated in front row visible
  • man in dark suit, seated behind p2, balding visible
  • man in dark suit, seated in middle row, white hair visible
Seen
wooden chairs [frame:1], podium [frame:1], microphone [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious and formal; themes: public address, formal gathering; style notes: high-contrast black and white lighting, medium shot framing the audience and speaker, staged composition

A group of formally dressed people sit in rows in a dimly lit hall, with one man standing at a podium in the background. The scene is shot in black and white with dramatic lighting focused on the audience and speaker.

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 9:43 (passage 9:42–9:44); US record: No renewal found

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