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Phantom of Chinatown · Beat 50 · permalink

Private office

12:10–12:16 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 12:1312:13

Play from 12:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 42 · shots 98–98. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, dark hair, wearing dark dress visible
  • man, dark hair, wearing dark suit and tie visible
  • man, dark hair, wearing light-colored suit, walking away visible
  • man, wearing dark suit, fedora, standing near doorway visible
  • older man, balding, wearing dark suit, walking forward visible
Seen
lamp [frame:1], doorway with staircase [frame:1], armchair [frame:1], carpet [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, tense; themes: formal gathering, movement within a confined space; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, static framing, black-and-white film

Five people are seen in a formal interior room; four men and one woman walk or stand in suits and dresses. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 12:13 (passage 12:10–12:16); US record: No renewal found

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